Did two garden tours this last weekend and the local TAFE Horticulture class may be coming out soonish to have a tour...they'll be sorry as I can talk the leg off a chair about gardening and often nearly lose my voice doing so 😆

I haven't got nearly that much land to use for food production (I'm on less than a half a normal block & that has a small cottage, a shed and a small area for the garden, the dogs and the guinea pig) but so far I've got 8 productive fruit trees, a large raised bed with various berries, plus 3 raised beds and various large pots for vegetables/salad. I'm also underplanting the fruit trees with plants that take up space ie pumpkins, bush beans, peas, potatoes etc to increase production and provide ground cover to retain moisture.
I dehydrate or freeze excess produce for use during the year but I don't produce enough to sell - but the neighbours do get their goodies when I have extra.

Cares - feel free to talk gardening as much as you like......I'm always keen to learn more.

If room is an issue - I would look at getting a seed-sprouter (purchased another one recently foe $20. at 'that big home ware' and everything that starts with 'B' and is green and red in colour).
In a situation were you are forced to fend for yourself and are confidant of your location I would start growing seeds in the trays. It would be a bonus for anyone trying to survive on things besides those 'Dust covered cans of beans in their pantry'.
Seed sprouters can add a quick source of vitamins on-going by rotating the seed trays and there are places in down-under that do on-line seed sales at a very good price. If you want more details PM me.

Well, we have a acre for the garden, fruit tree's etc for two adults plus some feed for critters on the farm.. On a good year, we get way more then we need for two out of the space and on a poor year, (like this year) we didn't get enough out of it.. So I think the weather and the year make a huge difference in what comes out of that space.

Well where I live we have a growing season that you can count on from about May 24 to September's Labor Day weekend........ so around the 4th.
Not a lot of room for error with a lot of things.

Our garden is about 325 sq m. There is just the wife and I but we grow way more than we need and give a lot to neighbours. Of course one has to remember that although we have a short number of days in the growing season we have lots of daylight and so our days are way longer than what many of you may be use to. Makes a difference.

this year i used about 800 sq feet of space for the garden, with another 200 ready to go for next year. that's not including the 23 fruit trees, or the berry bushes/canes/plants . . . could be more, but i have to keep things pretty for the wife lol. we have a done of sumac the new growth is edible, and the berries make a lemonade type drink, too dry this year to use any of it, but plan on trying it next year.

i'm doing a second growth of cover crops to feed the soil (growing season is mid-May to mid Oct) time for a second crop for somethings, but not much, so cover crops are keeping the weeds out and feeding the soil.

next year things will be better planned and better spacing. some things were too far apart, others too close. i'm also going to interplant with companions, onions between tomatoes and peppers, corn and squash, and i'm going to give some grains a try too. only my second year, so i've got a lot of learning to do. . . and i'm loving the process.