Writings of a would-be smallholder in rural Monmouthshire....

Ancient David Brown Tractor, Ben - Head of Sales!, The Great Oak, Monmouthshire Tymawr Farm

Ancient David Brown Tractor, Ben - Head of Sales!, The Great Oak, Monmouthshire Tymawr Farm

Friday, 30 November 2012

Vision # 7 - Metrics 

Some numbers which I found interesting below - from http://www.ukagriculture.com/uk_farming.cfm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom.


I read the key points as follows:

1.  In order to be completely self-abundant each person in the UK needs to obtain all of their food and drink from 0.67 acres of farmland.
2. To contribute it's 'fair share' Tymawr-Farm should sustain 24 people!

If  you assume that each person eats and drinks say, £20 per week, that means sales of £24960 on our 16 acres.

Scary!  Would be wonderful if it could be possible.  In order for the UK to be 'self-abundant', it MUST be possible!

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