Being new to this forum I'll quickly introduce myself: I'm a city dweller of 29 years old, currently living in the North of Europe with my partner. We're living in the city, but I do rent a very little plot close to home of around 100m2, where I grow some fruit and veg.
Recently, we have been considering moving to Sicily, Italy, and I'm investigating what it would take to grow most of the fruit, vegetables and nuts we eat ourselves.
My question is: how much space / acreage would we need to be able to grow 85% to 90% of our food ourselves? This would be for 2 adults, in a Mediterranean climate (some useful climate data here:
https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/historyclimate/climatemodelled/ragusa_italy_2523650 )
This is what I'd like to grow:
- winter garden with onions, cabbages, root vegetables, asparagus, other greens, etc.
- summer garden with squash, pumpkin, tomatoes, peppers, beans, eggplants, etc.
- I'd like to grow a decent amount of tomatoes in order to can for use in winter.
- Food forest with different types of fruit / nut trees (a.o. prune, apricot, avocado, peach, almonds, pistachio, fig, pomegranate, apple, pear, olive, cherimoya, different types of citrus, guava, etc.)
- Probably some chickens for eggs
We would buy stuff like bread, pasta, flour and rice locally, so no need to supply for this ourselves.
I'm curious to hear from anyone who does / has done something similar, and what size property would be appropriate for this purpose.
