The Micro Smallholding: Grow 85% of your food on 8/10th acre

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Liz Zorab from Byther Farm explains how she produces 85% of her annual food. She tells us what she grows in terms of crops, what she substitutes to replace the food she cannot grow, plus what she preserves, and stores for the year. She also us talks about some of her tested techniques that make this garden as low maintenance as possible for one person to manage.

Liz has done all this after acquiring a bare, compacted field with virtually no top soil four years ago and turning it into a lush, productive market garden in just two years. She grows enough food for herself and her partner and runs a little CSA. Her garden is so successful that she no longer needs to go out to work.

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Thank you so much for chatting with me Maddy and for sharing our story.

LizZorab

Wonderful! So inspiring <3 We have only 172 square feet (16 sq. meters) of growing space on our tiny property and we are growing so much! Our goal was to eat 1 meal a day that included something we grew and so proud to say we have met that every day for the past two weeks! Cucumbers on salads, greens cooked, sweet potatoes for breakfast and even just green onions as a garnish. So small space is possible!

thinkingglobal

I love watching Liz Zorab, she has an easy way of showing us how its done... and appreciate that she shows mistakes... as Groucho Marx said " We learn from the mistakes of others...because, you can never live long enough to make them all yourself".

kathryndawes

Great video, great to listen to, empowering, the filming was very well done. Thanks for setting a great example.

greenwomble

We created no dig beds last year, due to having no money for any more compost we also dug over another area; it was near impossible to dig and there were no worms at all. I have just prepared our beds for this year and the no dig bed now has hundreds of worms and the dug bed had only a few, and I think they are only there as they got lost from the no dig bed!!
Great video. Liz you are an inspiration.
Lovely to see two amazing women in one video 😁

lovelovinghorses

Liz, good to see you being recognized for your efforts. I watch your channel regularly. We grow Minnesota midget melons and they are scrumptious. They are shorter season which we need in our last frost May 15 to first frost Sept 15 growing season.

andreajohnsMyPotteryBliss

Such lovely ladies, can't wait to get my land

butterbean

Isn’t that 4/5th of an acre?, love seeing people growing most of there food on a v small plot of land. The Late ‘Robert Hart’ grew a Forest Garden on 1/8th of an acre in Shropshire, that provided all his food needs.

Kiyarose

Great, just a shame that 'micro' and 'small' still describe an amount of land far beyond what most people own or have access to. It's unrealistic for probably well over 90% of the UK population.

TheDiplococcus

beautiful. I have a question: how do you protect your back? I have terrible back problems and have trouble pulling stuff out of the ground. Also, how much time per day do you spend working in your garden?

tabou

how much work does this require? roughly how many hours a week are you investing in this garden? And how much income is
the CSA bringing in?

pheyknaim