Minimum Acreage For Family Sustenance

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• Chapter 18 The Village

In the Numbers

Ground for a household The village and its trades

The rows that check it

• 5 confirmed
• 1 amended
• 2 partly confirmed
• 0 marked for safety

• A80 partly confirmed Hedersleben 1865: 337 ill, 101 dead from one pig; untreated trichinellosis case fatality 15 to 30 per cent; 148's cow (6 t milk, 490 kg beef on 1.5 ha) is 117's goat household …
• J10 amended 4,000,000 kcal/yr for four = 2,740 kcal/head/day; 30/30/40 ratio is a fitness-blog ratio, not the AMDR (10–35/20–35/45–65); the fat argument (no oilseed on sand, fat must be …
• J11 confirmed 117's model: 1.0 ha arable in five 0.2 ha blocks (lupin, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, rye) + 0.5 ha clover grass; 3 goats, 12 hens, 2 pigs
• J12 confirmed Sand yields: potatoes 20 t/ha, carrots 30, cabbage 30 (70 % edible), rye 30 dt/ha, lupin 20 dt/ha; block outputs 4,000 / 6,000 / 4,200 / 600 / 400 kg; milk 2,100 kg, eggs 3,000 …
• J13 partly confirmed Buffers: 200 kg rye and 400 kg lupin to hens, 35 % drought/blight, 10 % seed/spoilage; net ≈ 5,440,000 kcal ≥ 4,000,000; "a subsistence model cannot rely on emergency external …
• J17 confirmed 117 assumes roller crimper, no-till transplanter, engineered biochar, inoculants, fleece for an "autarkic" household; the book's household has fork, scythe, heap, char pit, so …
• J18 confirmed 117's 1,500–2,000 h/yr for two adults = 14–19 h/week each; "manageable full-time livelihood" contradicted by its own "one adult manages 1.0–1.5 ha"
• J45 confirmed Honest Broker's findings: 117 half-cited to library PDF 24, diet from fitness blogs, calories from a protein shop, pasture short for its goats at low yield; 131 from …

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The field and the rotation Land and its measure Nutrition and the year's food Berlin and Brandenburg