Man grows ALL of his food on 750m2 (1/5th acre)

And he does all this by working on it one day a month
Man grows ALL of his food on 750m2
Eco No-Mads 25 minute video


FollowUp with Alik Pelman (how to become food self sufficient on just 750m²)
Eco No-Mads 39 minute video

I feel that is absolutely possible.

He is probably a vegetarian, (I did not watch the video) and eats a lot of stew.

I would expect that he cans his summer surplus.

I expect that he has a fall/winter garden and uses a root cellar to store the excess.

Mulch and drip irrigation or something like that keeps the plants wet when there is no rain.

If I am wrong that's okay.

I congratulate him for figuring all this out and sharing with the world.

He is probably a vegetarian

It's been a while since I watched the videos, but as I remember, he is full vegan (no meat, no milk, no eggs).

I was surprised to learn, he always set aside a good sized section - I think 1/3rd - to rest. He does not plant anything in that section. He has such a small amount of land, and he doesn't even plant it all.

I look forward to watching the videos. This might be useful information to have in my back pocket. Omnivores can adapt. We live in interesting times.

I wonder if there is any margin for error though. Weather can muck up the best of plans, and the weather seems more interesting and variable than it used to be.

I'm part way through watching it, but I grabbed a quick screen shot to share.

He grows -

- 50 m² of olive trees, for oil. But the wheat and beans grow right up to the trunks so this doesn't get included in the total.
- 200m² of wheat
- 350 m² of beans
- 150 m² of vegetable garden

Total is less than 0.2 acre

The crop he grows that takes most space is beans. He grows fava beans, which use winter rain, because in his climate there is no summer rain. He says that if he lives somewhere that also had summer rain he could halve the amount of space needed for beans by growing fava during the winter and a different sort of bean in the summer.

I like the way this guy thinks!