LEavE YoR Recomendations in the COmMent section BElOW
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Touch getting water without power. Tough farming without irrigation. You would need way more than 2 acres to consistently grow crops and alternating what crops between fields properly every season assuming all 2 acres is farmable wich it wont be. Septic field is maybe 1/4 or 1/8 acre that is unusable. House takes some, gonna need a barn there too. Hope its not wooded anywhere cause thats dead space. So...maybe a 1/4 acre of crop space. Like corn? Cause we are growing corn the first season and then of course skipping a season for the soil to recoup.
Its tough. Not rying to shit on your idea. It is possible just a lot goes into it. I have never farmed and rattled that off he top of my head. I have never even grown a potted plant before and I am almost 40.
Very relevant observations. Many books out there on growing on a 1/4 acre to feed oneself. Not saying I've done it. Also, wasn't necessarily counting on being 100% self sustaining. More like growing 30% of food, plus storing a lot. Eventually I'd get better at it. You could store rain water. Also power shutting off shouldn't be permanent. Figure out as I go but would give me a big cushion from shortages and bullshit. You should grow a potted plant just because.
I would go with what the books say over my speculation. lol. You are doing the right thing and I need to be doing it as well.
And you are 100% right, as I typed that I decided I need to pot a plant ASAP. I've decided on potting a pot plant. And the wheels are in motion already. Its even legal here now so I am totally on the up and up.
EDIT: You can grow potatoes in 5 gal buckets of dirtt on your deck or patio and grow hanging tomato plants without using field space. Probably a shitload of tricks you will learn along he way and I just regurgitated the reasons we are fed so that we cannot become self sufficient and not partake in the system as it is designed.