Living Off The Land

I found this on pinterest in the garden center and I was amazed. An average size family needs 2 acres of land if you eat an array or vegetables, fruits, grains, meat and eggs. I have five people in my family and it really puts into perspective the amount of resources, time and energy required to feed an average sized family in the U.S. The population started to rapidly increase in the 1960's with the birth of modern medicine, better quality of living, and the industrial revolution but before all this happened, the majority of the population produced their own means. If the population increase wouldn't have drastically changed, would we be still be producing our own food today? It makes me think that the development of modern agriculture almost encouraged the population to increase. That the new advances in technology were challenging our current way of life to see how far we could push the envelope. Well, we're finally there and the way we are living doesn't seem to be effective, then what is? How can we move away from modern agriculture when we rely heavily on it? Also, if producing your own food requires so much land, is it better that there is an agriculture system where people do it for us? I think that these are all important questions that we need to address. This image and definitely made me question the way we are living currently and which one is more beneficial.

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