Crop Planning
My interest in growing my own food has become more focused each year. Each planting I lay out a plan in my notebook or in an excel spreadsheet to keep track of what it is I am growing, its productivity and its potential use in my diet. As I have done this I have been asking how much food can realistically be grown to live off of? I will be using the following posted Crop Planner to track this years crops, anticipted yields, and the nutrition I expect to be able to include in my diet. I’ll post on the progress as I go: click Crop Planner.
Do you have a place where you list plants planted and planting dates, yields, etc? And this is only kale and adzuki beans, right? I’m not somehow screwing up your spreadsheet, am I? You are really rocking my world — if only because we’re doing some weird parallel evolution thingy.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:04 amIn my daily garden keeping, I jot down everything I plant in a notebook and the date. I also note a harvest and try to include weights. I have been less disciplined about this latter part but I now want to track the amount of food that we are growing and living off of, rather than viewing the garden goods as supplementary. I think you can down load the spreadsheet and format with additional columns. The Kale and Adzuki are only there as examples for now.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:43 am