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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live on .47 acres and have chickens and a big garden that provides a surprising amount of food for us. The garden can be a real PITA though - birds eat the berries, caterpillars feast on the squash, cukes, collards, rapini, etc. And foxes have eaten our chickens.

My point is that you can do a lot to grow food on a small plot, and it could be an interim step to figure out how much you can tolerate all the work that goes along with trying to separate from the grid. But if your DH is looking for space away from neighbors that's a different thing. [/quote]
Agree.
We have just over a half acre. My husband made a small fenced in garden plot for me. I love gardening, but it is a pain in the butt. We struggled with blossom end rot on tomatoes, peppers, and squash. You need to add a lot of fertilizers. We did most of it organically- for instance, the ground needs to have calcium. You can use crushed egg shells, crushed oyster shells… it needs magnesium… we compost a lot, and even then had to use bat guano and fish scales fertilizer.
Even though it’s fenced, moles and voles and mice can still get in. I only got two strawberries this year, the rodents got the rest.
By the end of the summer, I was usually getting 2 to 3 tomatoes a day. Lots of cucumbers, peppers and squash.
We managed to get a couple cantaloupes. The growing season was short for decent pumpkins. Soybeans - even though I planted early, didn’t mature until October. I also planted cauliflower and broccoli, but that heat wave at the beginning of the summer ruined them. 
It is a lot of trial and error. And a lot of research. There are many vegetables you have to plant early and are only spring crops, like broccoli and cauliflower. It’s not as easy as a child’s project of planting a seed in a pot. 
Before moving to the country, get a larger suburban lot and have a small garden plot.
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