The 5 Mile Radius

I've a small local Nisa village shop with a post office, a pub/restaurant, a chinese takeaway, doctor and a chemical research establishment all within 5 miles but no local produce available. No dairy cows locally most farm land is grain or seed - we do have a pig farm, which smells, so we might be ok for bacon, if slaughtering rules were relaxed. All other land is snaffled up by the MOD. We do have a local working mill that doesn't mill anything, so that might come online if armageddon struck. Otherwise it would mean going further afield to supermarkets which are 7-10 miles away. I think I might turn veggie like you V if I had to trek 10 miles and back. Or maybe I'd send Paul, who can't make it up the garden without puffing , and wait a few days for delivery. Neighbour has ducks so we'd be ok for eggs

I wonder how much land we would all need to become self sufficient. My 3 patches would prob do it in the summer, but I'm not great at winter produce. I think Paul would have to sacrifice the orchard and lawn and dig some more beds out!

The world would have to change even more drastically if we all had to eat locally and seasonally, I'm not sure it would cope.