How Much Time Does it Take to Raise a Year's Worth of Food

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Learn how much time it really takes to raise a year's worth of food, can you really raise a large vegetable garden and fruit with just 2 hours of work per week? Melissa breaks down the amount of hands on time they spend on their fruit plants and vegetable garden for a family of four that provides them with over 50% of their produce for a year. Grab the resources and links (cuz there's some good ones) here at the blog post https://melissaknorris.com/174

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1:28.2	You are listening to episode number 174 of the pioneering today podcast.
1:34.2	Today we're going to be diving into how much time
1:37.4	does it really honestly take to raise a year's worth of food.
1:43.8	This is an email that I get quite often
1:46.8	or I get asked from people because on average,
1:50.8	we spend about two hours a week raising our own fruits and vegetables and
1:57.9	for a lot of those fruits and vegetables it is a year's worth of that
2:02.1	particular crop for us for a family of four which is myself, my
2:06.3	husband, my daughter, and my son. And my son is just entering his teenage years. He hasn't
2:11.7	quite got to that where they have like an empty stomach
2:14.6	and two empty legs all at the same time eating, but he's slowly getting that way and
2:18.9	then my daughter is our youngest. I just wanted to give you a little bit of reference on the size of our family and the ages so when I say for a
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