Again, we may thus say, that where we require now three acres, one acre would be sufficient for growing the same amount of food, if planting wide apart were resorted to.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Again, we may thus say, that where we require now three acres, one acre would be sufficient for growing the same amount…”
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Kropotkin argues for the effectiveness of wide planting methods in reducing land requirements for food production.
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