John that is flat farming verticle and permaculture does better in less space wit relative same labour except permits get to no watering weeding and does not look like garden.
- 2000 calories is not enough, remember in hard time 2x or more labor think military 2 -3 mre at 3000 plus calories a day, look at ranger school or any other special forces after grad pre 95 and you will see what happens to a human under high stress and physical activity one one mre a day, now it’s 2 a day people lost 30+lb in 6 weeks in each section of training, this is from in shape top form consentration camp skeletons. Hunger it gets to you mentally all you can think about is food, it separates the mentally weak from the mentally strong.
Next remember fencing 10 feet high 8 foot high deer fencing is useless cause deer did not get memo. Yoh will need pest control, look at permaculture it is well thought out and has a set up in each zone figured out. It is hard to do at first then gets easier as all the harsest work is done in set up including fertilizer and pest management.
Those number don’t take in crop failure, we had issues last year no squash cukes or gourd due to smoke in sky from fires. What do you do then? Not only no food but you will need more seeds.
Of doing compost learn humus compost is, it’s a game changer.
Also fruit trees can be devastated by mice over winter, smaller things like rabbits can do a number on garden in just one night.
Water is huge, how do you plan to water with no power? If you think you can bucket it… how many calories do you think you will burn? One 8 foot tall apple tree takes nearly 50 gallons of water a day if you surface water. Look up ram pumps if you have flowing water. There are also water wheels to lift water and screw chutes that can be built, are art now as water rights and permission is required if it is a device not if it is art.
Best to get this sorted now when failure means trip to store not to graveyard.
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