> Then you have the effort of preserving all the food. The modern house isn't a great place to store potatoes. You'll probably want to can/jar most of it.
My my area of expertise, but can you preserve most foods without a significant bulk of salt or sugar? Especially if you're talking about a significant portion of a year's worth of calories.
That means you'd also need a salt mine, a sugar crop, or tons of honey or maple syrup you make on site.
So much of "live off the grid to" me seems like fantasy. Or quietly ignoring all the ingredients you still get from the grid. Fundamentally, any western standard of life from the past few hundred years requires local and long distance trade, which means interdependence and a large community. This go it alone fantasy just isn't possible.
My my area of expertise, but can you preserve most foods without a significant bulk of salt or sugar? Especially if you're talking about a significant portion of a year's worth of calories.
That means you'd also need a salt mine, a sugar crop, or tons of honey or maple syrup you make on site.
So much of "live off the grid to" me seems like fantasy. Or quietly ignoring all the ingredients you still get from the grid. Fundamentally, any western standard of life from the past few hundred years requires local and long distance trade, which means interdependence and a large community. This go it alone fantasy just isn't possible.