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

Huh! Many months of my childhood were spent bouncing a push-hoe from
one flint to the next. The trick was to avoid damaging the crop rather
than destroying the weeds.

The land was chosen for convenience rather than quality as it could be
watered and was within shotgun reach for pigeons. However, none of my
land within 1/2 mile of a Domesday book village is any better.

regards
>

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Tim Lamb