On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:33:56 -0000, "Jill"
> wrote:

>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?

It has lasted for a good few thousand years. Not that you'd notice. A
good days work would kill you. It's one thing throwing a few chickens
in to a cage to fend for themselves whilst you do your stalking on
newsgroups. It's quite another to live off the land.