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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks again, james.  If you can grow all of your own kitchen food with a cup 
of seeds (and good soil, water, and lots of work), 

how do you grow the stuff to feed enough animals to feed 2-3 people? 

 Say, a person had only small animals (rabbits?) up to the size of maybe a 
couple of sheep , a coupla pigs, and a coupla goats, per year (that should be 
plenty for two-three people?).  With this , and fishing, and perhaps a little 
hunting, couldn't a couple feed themselves?. 

 It can't be that easy though (I'm not referring to ease of work).  If it 
were, why are so many people working themselves to the bone physically, and 
mentally, to make money to provide food and shelter.  The amount we (my 
family) spend on food is ridiculous...bobford 

--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> 
> Bob, I often get that, "Why, with you leaning toward
> food self-sufficiency, 
> you must buy 50lb sacks of seeds, no?"   No.  While
> it's true that if you want 
> to keep a cow or an animal for draft purposes, you need
> some space, and no 
> mistake.  But vegetable gardening and even raising kitchen
> grain doesn't really 
> take that much space, and certainly not that much seed.
 
 So a turnip area of 35 square
> feet would be plenty.  
> If you garden in beds and they are 4 feet wide, you need
> about 9 feet of bed 
> for a year's supply of turnips.
> 
> And you need a thimble full of seeds if you precision seed
> or transplant.  
> 
> 
> James