Quote (ofthevoid @ Jul 31 2023 10:22am)
I don't think this is true or can be achieved. Something like 75-80% of people in the US live in urban or suburban environments. I have a garden at home of like 150-200sq ft and sure it's nice to have homegrown tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, herbs, but if I had to rely on it solely to survive I would die within a month. Community gardens are great but they are supplemental in nature and can never really replace wholesale food needs the way our cities are setup now.
I agree with you somewhat, I think self-sufficiency is really nice, and my wife and I are currently trying to buy a home with at least like half an acre but even then, to assume if 2/3 of that is be allocated to some food production, we'd still starve to death if only relying on it. She comes from a farm-family and they had about 30 acres, yeah that's actually realistic if you want to be self sufficient but what % of Americans can actually secure even 1/10th of that living in or around a city? Not even going to mention how work intensive and time consuming it would be to cultivate and going through the whole process would be.
correct, by that statement which wasnt worded well i meant "the most prudent way currently to divest from corporatized food is to produce it yourself". both because non-corporates food is extremely expensive and many organic and other foods are just corporatized foods in disguise.
as to striving to self produce it is very difficult. i've got an acre and have transformed it into a food forest, almost every area of my property is growing something, while allowing some space for my kid to play in. even then i still have a weekly grocery list, it's just far smaller than it used to be. buying local beef and pork at least has me personally not buying much store bought meat, as that's the biggest health issue imo of store bought items.