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A modest size back yard could grow nearly enough food to feed your family of four. The key parts of managing this are: 1. Grow what your family will eat! 2. Use space very wisely (e.g. Grow the 3 sisters - corn, pole beans, and pumpkins - together) 3. Keep on top of preserving your harvest 4. Use what you don't eat (think zucchini overload) to trade for things you don't grow 5. Seek out others who can help! (Check out Path To Freedom! )

AnswerYes! Used raised bed gardens, which are more productive and grow more food in less space.

If you Google "urban homesteading", you will find that others have fed families of four using as little as 1/10 of an acre. (conventional farming uses 1.2 acres to feed a single individual.

That being said, there are lots of variables: soil health, local weather, rain, pests, farming practices, etc. that influence yield.

Conventional farming - which produces most of the the food found in supermarkets - is extremely wasteful and uses more than 12 times the amount of land and energy for comparable yields using traditional (organic) farming.

In summary, people have been feeding their families with gardens for thousands of years. This is an efficient, economical, and enjoyable way to feed a family.

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