In our up-to-the-minute video , we take a look at the modest yard of an old menage in Hannibal , Missouri and make a guess at the possible productivity :
This is a topic that has fascinated me for age . I used to own a little house in Hollywood , FL back in 2003 . This is how it appear as of the Google Maps icon from 2021 :
I am jolly sure I planted at least one of those coconut palm tree !
In the six calendar month I lived there before moving to Tennessee because of a better Book of Job offer , I implant about ten yield tree diagram . Unfortunately , all of them were cut down by subsequent owner , include , very sadly , a lychee and a tamarind , both of which would be highly fat mature tree diagram by now .
you may really do a lot with a small space . Though we own some land area now , not all of it is being used for growing solid food . In fact , most of it is not ! We have a few Akko of unused lawn , plus scads of wooded space that is just filled with oaks and popcorn trees and less - utile species . This will be remedied over the years , of form , since we ’ve only lived here for a yr .
Our current garden is about 1/4 acre . This is the yield thus far in 2023 :
1,139lbs of produce , plus 1,897 eggs .
This is really exciting . Having decent filth prepare a difference , plus we ’ve really start to get the Grocery course Gardening organization work . It will be interesting to see if we run into 2,000lbs this class . Ezekiel ’s watermelon have been half the yield ! Once the cassava starch and yam plant come in I cogitate we ’ll be up at least another 300lbs . Also , the sweet potatoes . And there are at least 30 pumpkins waiting to be harvested .
But I digress .
Suffice it to say that you may get a lot in a little space , particularly if you pay attention to soil fertility rate and concentrate on the crops that grow well in your region .
And see … I ’m just a piker at this . 1,100lbs is nothing . We have all kinds of space we do n’t use in every garden we ’ve ever build up .
If you want to see harebrained productiveness in an urban distance , checker outThe Urban Homestead . Or readParadise Lotby Eric Toensmeier and Johnathan Bates .
Use what little you have , pray over it and dedicate the space to The Lord , then roll up your sleeve and get to work . you could do it .
