Homegrown & Foraged Food Challenge

I’ve been exploring food for nearly a decade, and since the beginning, I’ve had a burning question: Would it be possible to produce 100 percent of my own food? Could I exist without grocery stores and restaurants? Nothing packaged or processed? Nothing shipped from far off lands? Could I grow and forage everything I ate for an entire year?

That’s the question I set out to answer a couple of years ago. I didn’t have a farm or even a house with a front yard. I didn’t have much growing experience, either. You could say I was jumping off the deep end.

I chose Florida as my location because of