That's a big 0.1 acre lot.

Shit like this looks cool, but most people don't have even a tenth of the time needed to maintain it...

Might as well link to the actual source which has a lot of great content.

The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

That is not enough food to sustain a person, but a great way to cut down on grocery needs!

Literally explains that this is insufficient.

I feel like the beekeeping is wasted effort if you’re going for self-sufficience.

It’d be like including a space for a liquor still. Super neat in concept, enormous effort in practice. Hell I’d be more in favor of the still over the beehives honestly, way more utility.

That looks like a 1940's WII landscaping plan. If you really want to invest in homesteading, get out of the 1940's design.

Invest in a high tunnel instead. The larger the better.

It will out-produce the little raised beds by a factor of 3x to 10x depending on the crop.

There are loads of fantastic personal benefits to living like this, like having choice of fruit and vegetables that aren't possible to find in supermarkets, no plastic residues from packaging on your food (and no plastic waste to dispose of), getting exercise, fresh air and vitamin D from working in the garden, less carrying groceries around, less need for refrigeration (many veg goes straight from garden to kitchen), health benefits of contact with soil and seasonal diet just to list the first ones that come to mind. Also if your children have contact with animals (even hair and dust left behind by animals) they are less likely to developed allergies. And you're also not helping already wealthy shareholders of food corporations to further out-compete working class people in the market.

It's an absolute winner.

I grew Chard one Summer during the pandemic. I had some old garden magazine with a similar sketch, but focusing on the vegetable beds. They described how incredibly space efficient chard is, and how it should be grown in any garden centered on self-sufficiency.

So anyways, I'm all for community gardening now and can not look at another leaf of chard for the next decade. That stuff really knocks the dream of self-sufficiency out of any gardener. It's ridiculous how much Chard just 2 rows of plants can produce with minimal time spend tending to them, but don't believe anyone who says its leaves tastes like spinach and the stems like asparagus. It tastes like green mush and is best chucked in the freezer to die a slow death, maybe to be micro-dosed into some smoothie.

This is a nice sentiment, but not really to scale unless that's a kids play house.

If this is 1/10 of an acre, then TIL one acre is really big

Living on .66 acres, this seems wholly unachievable for most people. In a perfect world, it's neat, but just not very realistic in most cases.

For those civilized in the ISO metric, 87' x 50' would be around 26.1m x 15m = 391.5m²

That house seems to be ~450 sq ft, that seem right?

1 acre = 43,560 sq ft

43,560 sq ft / 10 = 4356 sq ft

8 ft x 4 ft x 8 = 256 sq ft if you bunch all the beds up together

Honestly it's entire lot size is slightly larger than an average USA home family floorplan, but you're not gonna have any privacy and you're not going to feed the people more than once in a blue moon on that amount of homegrown.

And you want to live with BEES in that amount of space? Yeah, have fun.

My home is on a 9k lot. Almost twice the size of this but I can't fit anything near that. I guess majority of my space is take up by the front lawn and driveway.

Am I blind, or is number 4 missing?

That house is absolutely not to scale

I just put in a garden with 4 8x4 beds. Sounds like I need another 4 beds. This shit is addicting.