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RE: Food for a year to feed a family of 4
Looking good - do you grow sweet potatoes too? There are a number of different varieties and some are more nutritious than the regular white/Irish potato which are delicious but have less food value.
There is a lot of good wild food in the forests of Canada - wild leeks, blueberries, watercress, mushrooms like morels, walnuts, hazelnuts, fiddleheads, the list goes on.... here is a handy link that may interest you
http://www.outdoorcanada.ca/15-wild-plants-you-can-eat
We don't grow sweet potatoes ... yet. I would love to try them though. We have 5 verities of potatoes, my favorite being the purple potatoes from the mountains of Peru and a heritage verity that has been in Newfoundland for 250 years. They seem to do well here. I am aware of most of those wild foods as we have been in the bush now for many years learning about the wild foods and medicines. The book we use most is the 'Boreal Herbal, The: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North' by Beverly Gray. Fantastic resource and had hundreds of species in there to help with medicine and food! We have also learned a lot from the indigenous teachings as well.
I will check out that book thanks