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  • From: jamesdavid Sneed <harvestcircle@hotmail.com>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] How Much Land Does It Take To Become Food Self-Reliant
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:27:54 -0700


Are you saying that taxes are necessary for permaculture?

> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 00:17:48 -0700
> From: diebrand@yahoo.com
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] How Much Land Does It Take To Become Food
> Self-Reliant
>
> Hi,
>
> I haven’t followed this discussion, so I apologize if I repeat something
> that has already been said.
>
> >... no it doesn't take hundreds or acres or miles
> > or whatever Toby said for wild harvests.
>
> In Japan, on highly fertile soil with more than enough rain, a quarter acre
> of intensive farming is more than enough to grow most of your own food. On
> very poor soil in the arid climate of the South of Portugal, even 30 acres
> are hardly enough to sustain a family. And to live on the few berries or
> mushrooms that will grow here in the wild, even 1,000 acres wouldn’t be
> enough to feed a person.
>
> Fukuoka floated this idea about a quarter acre for every family in the
> early 90s. At the same time he also advocated doing away with the liquor
> tax. As a farmer he was a genius, but as a social thinker he was a pure
> catastrophe.
>
> Dieter Brand
> Portugal
>
>
>
>
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