pluoghing land

[IB1]

I'm sure I read somewhere - John Seymour possibly - that you would need about 5 acres for a family to be self sufficient, and more if the land was not very good quality. Not all of that would need to be dug as you need grazing for goats, growing fruit etc, but a fair amount would and it would be bloody hard work and time consuming if it was just you and a spade, especially as you will probably need to rotate the land each year or so as well