"Jill" > wrote in message
...
> 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?
>
life long.
If you have no alternative
Jim Webster