A very interesting read, Nate :<)
also, as I studied film and my brain thinks in movies, I had to ask if you've ever heard of and or seen The 1988 "Red Sorghum"?
It's a great, Asian, movie classic by a famous Chinese director ), who broke through internationally / went more mainstream with movies like Hero ( 2002 ) and House of Flying Daggers ( 2004 ). I also read the book that it's based on, inspired by. An impressive story.
In the area in Portugal where I am living, there's more and more community exchange coming up. I get eggs and veggies from my twin sister's land and, up till now, I mainly spend time with her kids in exchange for this or help her with crypto, as I described in my post from a week ago: The Power of Crypto - How it has helped my twin sister and her family to change and improve their Life.
Come to think of it, I'm pretty much the go to guy for crypto in my area, and have been so since I arrived 3 years ago. That and the favorite 'uncle' of a bunch of kids and favorite babysitter of a bunch of parents haha.
I don't have a plot of land of my own, as of yet, as I lived in a house without land that is now for sale and I'm renting now and not sure how long I can/ will stay on this plot.
I can't wait to grow my own food though, even if it's just a little bit and might start on a small scale, for the time being.
All the best!
Small scale food production is really cool. Some folks say that true creativity comes from having rigid limits, like the structure of a sonnet or villanelle. I've been thinking on small scale meat production, and I think you could do quite a cool job with just 3m² of balcony or porch space breeding rabbits, probably yielding around 20kg per year. Or potato buckets, which can yield something like 2kg of potatoes from a 20L bucket. You could fit something like 25-30 potato buckets in the same space. That's a bunch of potatoes.
Sorry if my math is a bit off, I'm working on my metric adaptations lol