Re:More Than 90% of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Bypro...
by khawkins on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:08PM
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Gonna call bullshit on that claim. I've seen estimates that an acre feeds 2-20 people. Assuming 20 people, that's roughly 2000 ft^2/person, which is 10 times bigger than the 200 ft^2 size of their larger model. Not going to believe packing plants close together is going to give an advantage of 40x more produce.
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Re:More Than 90% of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Bypro...
by strait on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:03PM
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If the soil is rich enough and the growing season is long enough, then possibly, in that space, you could schedule growing enough salad vegetables and various root vegetables that a family would usually eat in a year. This is assuming that a fraction of their total calories would come from this source and most would continue coming from purchased grain products and meats.