Growing Your Own Food, For Real: Strawberries, Sorghum, and the Hard Truth https://spectra.video/videos/watch/440ee402-b4ea-40e7-83b1-29304a48e872 Grab our eBook, 'Meditations On Agriculture' at https://loopfarmstead.com/books/ Most people telling you how to grow all your own food are not actually doing it. I'm not there yet either, and I'll tell you straight. This is the honest version: what it actually takes to feed a family from your own land. Over three days on the farm I propagated 38 strawberry plants from runners, built a terrace on contour, and started the long project of turning every cleared acre into food. I harvested sorghum and beans, fed the chickens and ducks, and worked out the real math of a complete diet: calories, protein, and oil. The numbers are honest. To feed my family I need roughly 15,000 square feet of calories, 10,000 of protein, and 2,000 of oil. I'm not close yet. But the season answered the questions I needed answered, and now I know what to do differently. If you want the truth about growing your own food, not the fantasy, this is it. 0:00 Intro 0:08 Strawberry Runners: How One Plant Becomes Many 0:21 The Strawberry Bed Is Spreading 1:07 Fixing the Fence: The Energizer Mystery 2:02 Building the Terrace and Planting Strawberries 7:23 Back to Work: Knee Pads and Strawberries 7:39 Separating and Spacing the Strawberry Plants 8:59 The Crown: What You Don't Bury 9:48 33 Plants Down, 300 to Go 10:32 Tomatoes, Squash, and the Next Terrace 12:24 The Hard Truth About Growing Your Own Food 16:34 Planting Lettuce, Arugula, and Bok Choy 17:09 Harvesting Sorghum and Beans 19:29 Sorghum Varieties: Wayland, Mennonite, and Syrup 20:15 Why Sorghum Is the Grain We Want 21:00 Blackberries From a Ramen Cup 22:33 What Happens When You Do the Least Work 25:24 Season Review: What I Learned 26:27 Outro Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:09:41 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://spectra.video Growing Your Own Food, For Real: Strawberries, Sorghum, and the Hard Truth https://spectra.video/lazy-static/avatars/71f5d173-eea9-47a7-b254-f7e91f9f5d25.png https://spectra.video/videos/watch/440ee402-b4ea-40e7-83b1-29304a48e872 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://spectra.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.