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greenstormSooo.
I have a goal to try and grow 75% of my calories on this property by winter 2020. As a bonus by that time I may be producing my own animals from breeding stock so I'm not bringing animals onto th property to finish, but I'm allowing for animal feed to be brought in.
This year the plan is to grow lots of potatoes and use them to break the sod, while simultaneously trialing several varieties of wheat on a small scale. Then next year I scale up wheat in this year's potato field and grow potatoes in a new field. Veggies are pretty low in calories and they're easy to do in the summer; if I do a lot of sauerkraut, green beans, tomatoes, squash, and carrots, and do my own meat, wheat, and potatoes I'll be able to eat out whenever I want and buy more or less anything I want at the store and still meat target easily.
So today I found a lovely video of a dude with his wheat:
And at the end is this lovely chart:
If my production is the same as his, and if I eat one loaf of bread or equivalent every two days, I need ~2500 square feet of wheat growing area. Double that if I go wheat-heavy and do less potato/turnip/squash starch.
That... actually feels manageable.
I have a goal to try and grow 75% of my calories on this property by winter 2020. As a bonus by that time I may be producing my own animals from breeding stock so I'm not bringing animals onto th property to finish, but I'm allowing for animal feed to be brought in.
This year the plan is to grow lots of potatoes and use them to break the sod, while simultaneously trialing several varieties of wheat on a small scale. Then next year I scale up wheat in this year's potato field and grow potatoes in a new field. Veggies are pretty low in calories and they're easy to do in the summer; if I do a lot of sauerkraut, green beans, tomatoes, squash, and carrots, and do my own meat, wheat, and potatoes I'll be able to eat out whenever I want and buy more or less anything I want at the store and still meat target easily.
So today I found a lovely video of a dude with his wheat:
And at the end is this lovely chart:
If my production is the same as his, and if I eat one loaf of bread or equivalent every two days, I need ~2500 square feet of wheat growing area. Double that if I go wheat-heavy and do less potato/turnip/squash starch.
That... actually feels manageable.
