If you wanted to,

if you wanted to, could you grow all the food that your family needs in the garden?

It's a really good question, and it's one that I tackled in a semi successful and

semi non successful way last year with my apocalypse grow challenge where I was trying

to live off my own food but I also added in fishing, foraging and bartering and

really those pieces to the puzzle really did help.

But that's actually not the focus of today's episode.

Today we're talking about how large of a garden do you need for your family? And of course that's a

complex question, right? It depends on a lot, like how many people are in your

family? How many people in your family like a particular

vegetable, what vegetables they like at all, what happens if you grow too much.

And so the most important thing to consider is just how many people you need to feed.

So think about it.

You have adults, like let's call anyone above 14 or 15 an adult from the purposes of how much

they consume. So you've got adults, teens, then

you've got kids and infants and toddlers, right? And so figure that out and then on a

per person basis you have to figure out what everyone likes to eat.

So hopefully you guys all like to eat the same thing, but if you don't, then you know you'll want to titrate that and grow a little bit less of this and a little bit

less of this and the stuff that you like you grow a lot of. Okay, so on a per person

basis I'm just going to run over a few different types of plants and this might help. So, kale, let's say you really love

kale. Well, kale can grow for quite some time. In fact, you can overwinter it if you're in an area that can do that and you can just grow it again the next year and so it's a consistent cut and come again style harvesting plant.

So you can get quite a bit of kale off of a single plant. But the question is getting it consistently.

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