[Sca-cooks] How much land to feed a person

[Sharon Gordon]

Has anyone come across any information that would indicate how much land it
took to feed one person in a particular location, or some indirect
information I could use to figure it out?  The sort of thing I could use
would include:

1) Records of what was grown on an estate or farm and some indication of how
many people lived and worked there.

2) A plan or some instructions about what each individual or tenant farmer
should grow to provide enough for food for themselves/family and enough for
their payment to the landlord/church/taxes.  And some idea about the average
family or household size in the area.

3) Food rations given to a person per day/week/year.

4) Yield records along with what was consumed, and what was traded/sold, and
what was bought.  And some indication of the size group that was eating.

5) Archeological evidence on farm size, crops, and probable number of people
living there at any one time.

6) Lists of what a person should grow and store each year.

Sharon
gordonse at one.net