4 minute video on how to grow half of your own food in your backyard

Can you guess what the first component is going to be? A flock of backyard laying hens. And that would be one rooster and six laying hens. You can get on the order of about 250 eggs a year out of a good laying hen. But an average egg, based on the USDA’s advice, is about 63 calories. And if you’re collecting about 1,500 eggs a year from those six laying hens, that is going to be 94,500 calories that you can get in one year. So, the first component in our three-component system is going to be a backyard flock of laying hens with six hens producing 1,500 eggs a year, 94,500 calories.

The second component to our three-component system is, yes, a garden. Now, I’m not talking about a large garden. In fact, quite the opposite. I’m only talking about 100 square feet of bed space. In 100 square feet of garden bed space, you can grow about 100 pounds of potatoes. In this batch, there’s about 35,000 calories, and it’ll take you three to four months to be able to produce this in your garden. Okay, here I am in the squash patch. Now, if you were to grow 100 square feet of squash, your family and friends would hate you because it produces so much.

It’s so prolific. I think you’ll agree that in 100 square feet of bed space in your garden, you can probably produce at least 38,000 calories in a year. The third component of our three-component system is, can you guess, rabbits. Let me show you my backyard rabbit tree. This is a setup I’ve got. It’s 20 feet long by 2.5 feet wide, so what we’re talking about here is 50 square feet of space. I’m getting about 75 rabbits a year out of this system. I harvest my rabbits generally at about four or five months old, and they’re roughly in the range of about six pounds.

Now, with rabbits, you’ve got a 55 to 60 percent meat carcass ratio. That three and a half pounds of meat is 893 calories per pound. With 75 rabbits, that means that you’re going to be getting 234,413 calories out of this system. This system produces 369,913 calories, and that’s about half of a diet. That, again, is going to be a small backyard laying flock with six hens, a 100 square foot garden, and then a small rabbit tree with one buck and three breeding does. So there you have it. You can be producing half of your own food and medicine in your backyard in less than an hour a day.

This simple three-component system is actually fairly easy to implement. I would recommend that you start with one piece, get that going, then start another, and then finish off with the third. As you start growing that and eating that, you’ll see your health improve and your vitality improve, and every aspect of your life will be getting better. You can do this. Go out there and grow your own food. [tr:trw].