Everyone is suddenly looking into whether or not they can grow all their own food and uh, no.

But also I did grow about 100 lbs of potatoes last year, so if you wanna know if you can do that, maybe?

You need to be medium fit, by which I mean not "buff" but "can do a couple of hours of moderate labour without taking a hit to your HP"

And you need some at least medium quality dirt.

And a shovel.

And for it not to be miserable, you need a second person who is willing to labour alongside you.

also, if you want to grow more than 30 lbs of potatoes, you'll need a cold place to store them, or else you'll need to eat hella potatoes real quick.

It'll take about three shifts of at least an hour, and if you want a hundred pounds of potatoes, more like a couple hours, and if you're not hella buff, do it on a saturday so you can spend sunday enjoying your new awareness of muscles you have never thought much of before.

A weekend when the ground thaws, to plant, a weekend when your potatoes break the dirt, to hill, and a weekend before the frost, to harvest.

That's doable for a lot of people.

If you got the dirt to put them in.

@Betty that sounds like a v cool garden project!

there are a number of urban farm projects around here which seem to do pretty well at supplementing a communities food needs but while they have the potential to be answers to “this community has limited access to fresh fruits and veggies due to being a food dessert” the areas of my grocery bill that i’m expecting to really hurt in the coming months is all fats & protein which generally require a bigger operation than an urban farm can manage (historically the solution here would be chickens which are extremely practical in small plots and help w/pest management for your veggies, but bird flu is already causing problems there….)

@Satsuma also the one person in the US who had died from bird flu (last time I looked (and I guess, if we think the CDC even knows who's alive and dead anymore)) was a back-yard chicken keeper, so. Yikes.