/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13795655
hens
bunnys are good too
also a goat for milk

Doable, but it's a full time job in and of itself.

Not really in a home garden, growing protein-rich foods depends on a large amount of land and crop rotation to replenish nitrogen. That said, having assorted fruits and veggies plus chickens for eggs is the most viable self-sufficient setup for a yard; otherwise I’d buy bulk corn, rice, and beans and supplement with your garden.

>>13795655
>Is it possible to live on only food from a garden?
No. Get a couple chickens in the yard too, and then maybe you could self-survive.

>>13795655
Yeah, but only plants produce food constantly, unlike a animal you have to go replace it constantly.

Don't do it unless you can take the pressure of plants only

>>13795746
if you get a male animal it self replaces

>>13795655
Get chickens too

>>13795761
What?

>>13795783
make the animals fuck and you don't have to get more they self replace

>>13795655

Could get something like this.

>>13795802
Are mushroom healthy?

>>13795911
yes but they taste like ass

>>13795655
Yes, but it depends on your climate.

>>13795799
Do you have a bigger version of that?

>>13795655
I had 10 bean stalks last year and harvested them like 4 times. Each.

It depends where you live and what time you got. I wouldn' t say you can COMPLETELY live off your garden/land, but it can be a real money saver.

>>13795655
If you grow a lot of things that store well and or can/dehydrate/pickle things. Potatoes, legumes, gourds/pumpkins, onions, carrots, turnips, etc will all last through a winter with proper storage. Peppers freeze well, tomatoes can well, lots of things can be dehydrated. Get a few chickens, ideally a flock of hens with a rooster you can isolate, and feed them with compost and food scraps (not potato peels though). Consider growing mushrooms, they're very high protein once dehydrated, and you can grow them all year. Oyster mushrooms in particular are braindead simple to grow, you could probably start by chopping up store bought oysters, rolling them up in wet cardboard, and tossing that in a straw pile.

>>13795655
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX4kq4QfYRA

This guy is as vegan as you can be while growing and foraging 100% of his own food for a year. He was doing it easy mode in Orlando, where you can grow almost any plant in the world.
I would say his diet was primarily plants.
However...


He ate squirrel, fished a couple times a month, and eventually ate "a handful" of roadkill deer near the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX4kq4QfYRA

>>13796078
That guys a vegan?

>>13796262
Not vegan, hes plant based. But as close to vegan as you could get imo.

>>13796297
>Not vegan, hes plant based.
I thought that was the same thing?

>>13795995
I'm sure one exists, that's just what I found first when I saw this thread. And I'm phone posting, so you're probably better able to find one.

>>13795937

You're supposed to cook them

Just plant passionfruits

>>13795655
You can just collect bugs from a garden, they are plenty of them.

>>13796314

Idfk what is what anymore. Making an identity based off of your diet is fucking stupid.

>>13796830
Do the pronouns stay the same for plant based vs vegan?

>>13796043
how many beans did you get?

OP here, so what seeds should I buy?

>>13795655
Beans take a lot of land to grow and a lot of work to shell, etc. Also the processing for tofu and seitan isn’t that harmful, but tofu in my opinion is wasteful. Better to just have the milk and okara, which is basically like tabouleh.

>>13795655
This might be a bit more helpful. Potatoes also have like 5g of protein and are really easy to grow and propagate by root division.

>>13799618
>propagate by root division.
how does this work?

>>13796808
Non-meme answer side, fruit trees do produce fast and constantly without replacing them, fruit trees a good bet. just process the fruit and don't eat them raw

>>13798989
check out /out/ homegrow

I had a garden that was 15x30. I think it works differently based on climate and soil but bell peppers, jalapenos, tomato, cucumbers and garlic grew so fast I had to give half of it away. I've had little luck with pumpkin, watermelon, potatoes, onions and carrots. Mediocre yield for brocolli, leeks and cabbage