[Sca-cooks] How much land to feed a person
UlfR
ulfr at hunter-gatherer.org
Thu Apr 28 01:38:10 PDT 2005
Sharon Gordon <gordonse at one.net> [2005.04.28] wrote:
> 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.
Look at agricultural history/archeaology research. I've seen some
summarized for Swedish conditions[1,2], and I recall that for early
middle ages/late iron age (1000-1200 or so) we are talking about 20
acres for a familly style farm. I can't recall if that includes forests
used for grazing or not (probably the latter).
> 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.
IIRC Myrdals books [1,2] includes that kind of information. They are in
Swedish, which may or may not be an impediment to you.
> 5) Archeological evidence on farm size, crops, and probable number of people
> living there at any one time.
Do a scholar.google.com search, I would suspect that there is a
substancial amount of information available.
/Par
[1] Janken Myrdal
Svenska Jordbrukets Historia.
Bd 1: Jordbrukets Första Femtusen År: 4000 f.Kr - 1000 e.Kr.
Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur (1998)
[2] Janken Myrdal
Svenska Jordbrukets Historia.
Bd 2: Jordbruket under feodalismen: 1000- 1700
Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur (1999)
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