Tiny farm produces over 6,000 pounds of food per year on only 1/10 acre

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i found this very interesting, and inspiring.

https://www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe/videos/10152846555756512/
 
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Very nice! I find it inspiring also, Thanks for the post!
 
Thanks for sharing. What amazing work!

This incredible tiny farm produces over 6,000 pounds of food per year on only 1/10 acre. What is even more surprising is it is located 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The Dervaes family cultivates over 400 species of plants, 900 chicken and 1,000 duck eggs, 4,300 pounds of vegetables, 25 lbs of honey and seasonal fruit depending on the time of year.

On only 1/10th of an acre, get over 90% of their daily food, plus earn over 20,000 dollars per year (after eating what they have produced). They use no expensive and highly damaging synthetic chemicals, and actually improve the fertility and overall condition of the land they are growing their crops on. If you scaled their 1/10th of an acre up to an acre it would come to over 200,000 dollars per year!
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_http://www.sun-gazing.com/tiny-farm-pumps-6000-pounds-food-per-year-located-shocking/#wssXQHrwrm7hljQK.99
 
Thanks for sharing. Its quite inspiring to see how well the space it utilised considering the family live in the city. Wow $12 a month on electricity bills, thats cheap. Also the best way to utilise evil grease is to put it in your car.
 
That looks so cool! Seems like it would be a lot of personal labor though... no wonder small-scale farms are primarily family businesses. I wonder if there's a way to reduce the amount of labor needed? Maybe just having all grass-fed animals? :P
 
whitecoast said:
That looks so cool! Seems like it would be a lot of personal labor though... no wonder small-scale farms are primarily family businesses. I wonder if there's a way to reduce the amount of labor needed? Maybe just having all grass-fed animals? :P
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Grass fed animals are a LOT of work. Basically making food of any type is a ton of work unless you do it in the hugely capitalized agribusiness way. But as far as the amount of good Paleo nutrition per hour of labor animals are much more efficient per hour of labor. Getting eggs from chickens is probably the easiest as far as labor goes.
 
I just looked at that article on Facebook and realized that this garden is in Los Angeles. Which means they can grow stuff 12 months out of the year. As long as they have water. Still impressive though but not doable for those of us in cold climates. On the other hand real estate is cheaper in the cold states.
 
Mr. Premise said:
I just looked at that article on Facebook and realized that this garden is in Los Angeles. Which means they can grow stuff 12 months out of the year. As long as they have water. Still impressive though but not doable for those of us in cold climates. On the other hand real estate is cheaper in the cold states.
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This reminds me of Meyers Farm in Alaska which does 'permafrost' farming. If I remember correctly the farmer extends the growing season quite a bit by digging gardens below the frost line and then covering them with large hoop structures for the winter. He had a handful of other unique methods too, which makes sense since you'd need some creativity to do farming way up yonder.
 
Renaissance said:
Mr. Premise said:
I just looked at that article on Facebook and realized that this garden is in Los Angeles. Which means they can grow stuff 12 months out of the year. As long as they have water. Still impressive though but not doable for those of us in cold climates. On the other hand real estate is cheaper in the cold states.
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This reminds me of Meyers Farm in Alaska which does 'permafrost' farming. If I remember correctly the farmer extends the growing season quite a bit by digging gardens below the frost line and then covering them with large hoop structures for the winter. He had a handful of other unique methods too, which makes sense since you'd need some creativity to do farming way up yonder.
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I remember reading about something similar. It turns out that it's called a Walipini:

The Walipini utilizes nature’s resources to provide a warm, stable, well-lit environment for year-round vegetable production. Locating the growing area 6’- 8’ underground and capturing and storing daytime solar radiation are the most important principles in building a successful Walipini.

The Walipini, in simplest terms, is a rectangular hole in the ground 6 ‛ to 8’ deep covered by plastic sheeting. The longest area of the rectangle faces the winter sun -- to the north in the Southern Hemisphere and to the south in the Northern Hemisphere. A thick wall of rammed earth at the back of the building and a much lower wall at the front provide the needed angle for the plastic sheet roof. This roof seals the hole, provides an insulating airspace between the two layers of plastic (a sheet on the top and another on the bottom of the roof/poles) and allows the sun's rays to penetrate creating a warm, stable environment for plant growth.
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_http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/build-underground-greenhouse-garden-year-round.html
 
davey72 said:
i found this very interesting, and inspiring.

https://www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe/videos/10152846555756512/
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Thank you for about sharing, this is a wonderful thing, in such a small space, all arranged just as it should be, a piece of fruit, vegetables, animals, irrigation, electricity, bio-diesel, a beautiful and harmonious family. A lot of effort, but it is essential that union, not relevant here only yields these farms, "harvest" is here, and the correlation between them and harmony.
Many thanks for sharing
 
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