Oz wrote:
> Buddenbrooks > writes
>> I assume that there is a difference between a claim that one acre can
>> produce enough food for a person, and that a specific acre can do so.
>> A million acres can support a million people may be correct (or not).
>
> Pearl seems to think that forage acres are just as good as arable
> acres.

A little reading in to the lives of areas like this might give a different
perspective, mind you, it depends on the quality of life folks are now
aspiring to!

> Anyway, in the UK, for most soils, pretty well any lowland
> acre can be farmed arably BY HAND.

That would keep folk occupied
I wonder how long it would last?

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