Sunflowers ?

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Explanation: I was wondering how much sunflower oil an average household uses per year and it seems to be about 13liters of sunflower oil, or 1litre per luna month, according to google sources.

So how much land must one dedicate to producing ones own sunflower oil?

In Australia we have 1/6th of an acre blocks where I live inner suburbia of Canberra ...

I did some back of the envelope equations and I came up with a figure of 18.5m^2 or 340m sqr total growing area with the house area already cancelled out, which i had calculated at being 1/3rd of the entire 1/6th of an acre, leaving 2/3rds of 1/6th of an acre to grow food in.

Assuming the worst yield possible per acre as 35-36gallons of sunflower oil, then 1/6th of that is 6gallons and 2/3rds of 6gallons is 4gallons and at 4liters per gallon = 16liters of oil.

So for 81.25% area used of 2/3rds of a 1/6th acre block would provide that 13liters of oil to use.

Personal Disclosure: It doesnt seem economical to grow ones own sunflower seed for sunflower oil production on 1/6th of an acre block of land or smaller BUT considering most farms in the world are 445acres big, farming it becomes a no brainer and anybody with a small farm of 1-2acres could easily make enough sunflower oil for themselves and possibly a neighbour, to last an entire year by farming and growing sunflowers seeds over 1/6th to 1/3rd of an acre.

Or about the area of the field of wheat in this picture ...