How to grow more vegetables
by John Jeavons · first published 1974
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…produced two pounds of tubers before boiling and cleaning. Plant spacing of around 9 square feet per plant. That comes to over ten TONS per quarter acre. They are amazingly productive. I highly recommend "How to Grow More Vegetables: Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine" by John Jeavons. Every year, my garden produces an ever increasing portion of the food for my household and this year it has expanded…
on “Facing meat shortages, some Americans turn to hunting during pandemic” ↗…role in determining that) mean that the answers will vary across a huge range. There's also the nature of the soil in question, another far from trivial issue. You can get some answers, however, from "How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine" by John Jeavons. Some of the answers can be very encouraging, some not so much. I did a weekend course with Jeavons a couple of decades…
on “Why I am building permapeople.org” ↗For a far more in depth look into high intensity gardening, with real data and realistic expectations, I strongly recommend John Jeavons: How to Grow More Vegetables: Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
on “How Much Garden You Would Need to 100% Survive On” ↗…Agency for International Development (USAID) and Stanford University before launching his career in small-scale agriculture education. He is the author of the best-selling sustainable farming handbook How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine, now in its 8th edition in eight languages ]
on “A remote UK community living off-grid” ↗…Agency for International Development (USAID) and Stanford University before launching his career in small-scale agriculture education. He is the author of the best-selling sustainable farming handbook How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine, now in its 8th edition in eight languages ]
on “Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?” ↗I wish the article had more facts and was more scientific. Blanket assertions like "we'll need 5 billion more cows" do not convince me. Anybody read about John Jeavon's work? I just bought his book (How to Grow More Vegetables) a couple of days ago. He claims that we have the technology to create self-sustaining farms which can feed a person on about 4000 sqft. Present day agriculture requires between 9000 and 30,000 sqft per…
on “The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals” ↗