How crazy are these people?

Very, as it turns out.

Seattle residents surprised their urban gardens don't produce enough to feed the city.

Kale don’t cut it in the hunger game.

“’I think many people see food growing in their backyard and a salad at dinner throughout the summer season and assume they are feeding themselves,’ Moskal said. ‘They don’t realize that calorie-wise, that’s not really the whole picture.’”

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“The researchers say their model can be used by other cities that have good geospatial data on sunlight and tree cover if planners input the relevant crops that grow well in a particular area. A sunny, sprawling city like Los Angeles, for instance, might be able to grow more crops than Seattle.”

http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/01/13/fewer-than-1-in-25-seattleites-can-really-eat-locally/

Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/

A backyard garden won’t feed your family. Really? Hippies really are stupid. But, hey, when everything falls apart, urban hippies will become extinct.