ShadowRaven Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 well, I know enough about growing food that no one should starve, if we had the start up capital to have the necessary equipment and land to grow enough food. Plus we would need some form of income, so a market garden seems logical. So we're talking...call it an acre per person of garden and then we would need at least that much, maybe twice that for grain crops. A herd of oh, twenty beef cows, and another 20 for dairy. Idaho gets winter, so we would need hay. So, another 400 acres for grazing and hay. Yeah, give me a couple million, and I could set us up just fine..... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisler Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Speaking of the commune... whose discussion I missed until now... We seem to have a good wide range of backgrounds... it could work.... We have a farmer, some nurses, maybe a couple of doctors, mechanics, accountants, and people willing to help, what more do we need? Though it would totally and completely fail, possibly even Jones style, but it's very fun to think about. Our Jones style would be lead poisoning, that might take longer. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I farm. Not so sure I'm going to be useful somewhere where there's a proper winter... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowRaven Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 oooh two farmers. We'll be fine. Now who's got the couple million bucks to front this operation? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dispatchdave Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 We've got 36 acres in GA.... It's a start? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay13 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 I'm not a farmer... but I can design products to process our tonnes of raw materials (called food) into.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thes Hunter Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Georgia doesn't get proper winter. Houston we have lift off. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowRaven Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 oooh, we could grow peaches. I love me some peaches 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 So we're moving to the country, to eat us a lot of peaches? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowRaven Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 but not the ones that come in a can,put there by a man, working in a factory downtown 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dispatchdave Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 No peach trees currently, though we have three Alabama Black apple trees, some weird mutant run-over-by-a-semi-three-times-struck-by-lightning-twice-accidentally-lit-on-fire-one-other-time apple tree that makes amazing fruit. Also mulberry trees and a pomegranite bush. Oh, and we grow pineapples, because we can winter them in the studio. And pecans. And I think a black walnut tree? So yeah, fruit works pretty well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowRaven Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 oh right, the studio. Artisan crafts are good ways to keep a commune alive 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadcubed Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Millions of peaches, peaches for free? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dispatchdave Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Millions of peaches, peaches for free? Millions may be a bit excessive for only 36 acres. Who knows? My brother-in-law just graduated from UGA with a degree in some sort of molecular biology. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowRaven Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 millions of peaches, peaches for me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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