Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (Review)

What’s the easiest 10x investment you can make?

Planting a potato.

Gardening is often dismissed as “a waste of time.” Meanwhile, food prices steadily increase and shortages become more and more common.

Last March, I wrote an article explaining why backyard chickens are the best inflation hedge you can make. Chickens cost nothing to raise, and one healthy hen will lay an egg a day.

Since then, egg prices are up 70%.

Today, I am reviewing a fantastic book I recently read. It’s called Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre and is all about growing your own fruits and vegetables.

Mini Farming author Brett L. Markham explains why gardening is not a waste of time.

According to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of October 2005, the average nonfarm wage earner in the United States earns $557.54 per week or $28,990 per year for working 40.7 hours every week, or 2,116 hours a year. According to the Tax Foundation, the average employee works 84 out of 260 days a year just to pay taxes deducted…