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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

A standard city lot is all that is needed for sustanance "homesteading."  I 
mean, sure, more would be better so that you could grow your own grains but 
bottomline, you could get by quite nicely on a city lot.

http://earthfirst.com/whos-who-in-green-the-dervaes-family/

That's the problem, or one of them.  The sheople are all convinced that you 
need a gazillion acres to feed a family.

And, as anyone can tell you, if the world could survive on tomatoes, 
zucchini and rabbit meat, you wouldn't even need as much room as the folks 
down in Pasedena have <g>  I mean, everyone knows that given the chance 
zucchini would take over the world! <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VAN DELL JORDAN" <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
> I've often wondered how things would play out if everyone wanted to live a 
> homestead life.  Agribusiness tells us that we couldn't raise enough food 
> to feed the world without intensive commodity production, though I think 
> we all agree that situation can not last forever.
> What is a minimum acreage needed?  How many people can the land support 
> this way.  If more and more people tried this lifestyle would that create 
> a competition for available space?  How would a return to agriculture as a 
> majority occupation effect the rest of the economy?
> For each of the questions I can think of a dozen possible answers...just 
> interested in what others think.