Dave Doyle

I believe you'd have  to get TPS (true potato seed ) and start your own line here.
That in itself is fraught with some peril, as potato seed has restrictions on its importation.

I would opt for a JA-17 Poultry Mobile. Think midget Conestoga Wagon for chickens!
Three sheets of plywood, some 2x4's, wire mesh and and a tarp - and some really cool innovations

Cantilever, stressed skin construction.
No Peck Egg Retrieval, from outside
Liquid Gold fertilizer generator.
Self closing doors
Stand up inside
one person moving on wheels!
Fresh air house
10 bird capacity
Use as brooder, greenhouse, tractor, storage
Part of a Permaculture Plan for longterm sustainable rotation

I built one some years ago and it lasted for 3 years, before I gave it to a friend - and it lasted 3 or 4 years with only his neglect.
With some maintenance and attention I'm betting 10 years would be doable.

I'll probably build another next year, now that Ive moved for the last time. I have a paddock area for the birds and the Poultry Mobile would be perfect.
Either that or a hoop house. But since Ive got the plans for the JA-17 (maybe the only ones left in the world, for all I know), its a no-brainer.

If I were in Britain, I'd select Dorkings or Sussex as dual purpose birds.

Some sort of Cornish Cross for meat.

How much land DO you have?

It's very consuming to produce 100% of your needs.
Sufficiency is the better course.

But you're telling me, you don't eat Marmite on buttered toast?!

Oh you poor dear.
Well, whatever males you happy

Pumpkins - also good for chickens.

Best of luck

Here's an aspect of food production to consider:
What form of carbohydrate will you consume?

Of your total caloric intake, your largest portion is carbohydrate. 2000 or more calories a day, every day in energy foods.

Grain?
Tubers?
Fruit?

This is often the most challenging part of self sufficiency. It's one reason man adopted agriculture, to produce enough.

And have you considered NOT producing all your food?
There's a big value in putting part of your labor into tradeable/sellable goods or services.

Aside from their medicinal, herbal and credibility, theu make great cover plants for chickens.

A tenth of an acre offers plenty of room for a half dozen chickens, and they use roses as shade and cover.
Forage for like rape, leaf Amaranth,turnips, southern peas... these can be intercropped around the roses for both you and my chickens.

In temperate zones, as found through 90% of the US, its best considered an annual.
A hardy and persistent one, to be sure.
I made this on PREDICTABILITY more than anything
Its my first year actually growing it, so we'll see.
I'll have have three "seed" varieties next year.

Cj Verde wrote:Dave, I thought Amaranth was an annual too but apparently there are some types which are perennial!

It is an annual.
But its self seeding qualities bring into the realm of perennial, or more rightly, "re-appearing annual."

"...BTW, Millet doesn't really belong in this thread anyway, being an annual."

Neither does Amaranth, but I mentioned it because it's self seeding.
Here in the SOUTH, one of its many versions is known as "pigweed" and is considered an invasive nuisance.