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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> 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.

That depends on the city. A "lot" in a rowhouse section of Philadelphia is 
16x70', and the house takes 16'x50' of that., leaving a little piece of dirt 
behind the house, shaded on 4 sides by 3-story buildings. I was lucky enough 
to have the 2 houses next to me torn down, so I had a 32x70 lot (still 
shaded) to garden in.

The Dervaes actually sell a lot of what they produce. They are a great 
example of what can be done with a small amount of land.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co., PA