Reminds me of my grandmothers victory garden. It was about an acre in size. The cellar was full of canned stuff for the winter and all summer and fall, everything was fresh picked. She only went to the market for meat, soap and paper goods, and that was only once a month when the rationing stamps came out.
On the other side of the family, my grandfather was one of the pioneers in hydroponic gardening. He liked his sliced pickles to be uniform in size, so he grew cucumbers in the basement in glass tubes to control the diameter.
