A good deal of the gardening content that you see online today speaks to some notion of self-sufficiency, which one might define as being able to live off one’s own land with minimal external inputs. I find this notion quite intriguing to say the least, and I’d be lying if I were to say that I’d never dreamed of achieving such a goal – but how realistic is that goal? How much food do you need to grow to maintain yourself if it’s all coming from your land? In this episode I do a few “back of the envelope” type calculations to play around with this thought experiment.