Between the years you eat potatos
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cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 week agoYou have no idea. Non organic planted potato’s have an average yield of 40t/ha. So this field would give you about 100t of potato’s. And trust me, you can’t do this manually and even with machines this takes a shit load of time. Without any experience in farming and without equipment, which is needed (you dont need machines to plant and harvest, because they are waaay to expensive) this is still quite a big investment. Potato’s also drain the soils quite a lot so you need to have a rotation of at least a few years. But what do you do in the years where you dont plant potatos?
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 week ago
libra00@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Can confirm, when I was a kid my parents wanted to build their dream house and bought 5 acres. Mom decided she wanted a ‘garden’, which wound up being a 40’x100’ mini-farm, and the only machine we had was a tiller, all the rest was hard-as-shit manual labor (‘Hey, good thing we had lots of kids!’ was a common refrain from my mom). Kneeling or crawling around on your knees, often with rocks in the soil, bending over, digging around or pulling weeds at arm’s reach, lots of standing up and kneeling down again, carrying a lot of heavy shit, dealing with bugs, thorns, nettles, and every other goddamned thing, etc. Extremely do not recommend, and that was only 0.03ha.