That's very true, my diet for the last year has slowly edged more and more to what I can grow here and what is easiest to store. The farm I'm moving to is a little under twenty acres so space isn't really a problem, I was simply wondering what people considered a bare minimum. I grew up on a similar size farm and every ounce of food we had came from it or our neighbors( yuppies that move into old orchards make great, cheap sources of fruit).