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August 2009: 20-Bed Unit Diet Design and Actual Yield Summary

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20-Bed Unit Diet Design and Actual Yield Summary
Golden Rule Garden 2008

From Margo Royer-Miller

Diet Design Projections*   Actual Yields

Crop**

Sq Ft

Yield (lb)

To Eat Daily (lb)

Total Calories

Crop

Sq Ft

Yield (lb)

To Eat Daily (lb)

Total Calories

Potatoes

365

730.0

2.000

261,340

Potatoes

351

456.25

1.250

163,337

Garlic

10

11.4

0.031

7,706

Garlic

10

1.88

0.005

1,270

Sweet Pots

110

182.5

0.500

68,437

Sweet Pots

90

18.35

0.050

6,881

Parsley

25

22.8

0.062

3,716

Parsley

18

21.25

0.058

3,463

Cayenne, dry

28

2.8

0.008

4,116

Peppers, hot (dry)

22

0.36

0.001

529

Pinto Beans

350

35.0

0.288

53,970

Dry Beans Cowpeas

326
25

37.99
1.33

0.310
0.010

58,084#
2,069

Pinto (in)

540

10.7

0.087

16,499

Beans (in)
Cowpeas

524
13

10.45
0.22

0.085
0.002

16,050
342

Flour Corn

540

91.2

0.500

151,110

Flour Corn

537

38.36

0.210

63,524

Amaranth

192

15.3

0.125

26,000

Amaranth

185

10.00

0.082

16,960

Cereal Rye

153

15.3

0.125

23,302

Cereal Rye

150

16.64

0.136

25,292

Totals

1,773

 

3.726

616,196

Totals

1,714

 

2.199

357,801

 

 

 

Daily

1,688

 

 

 

Daily

980

Dry Biomass (Amaranth + Corn) 308.9 lb Dry Biomass (Amaranth + Corn) 233.08 lb

Italics = dry weight yield; weight to eat is rehydrated by a factor of 3 (except flour corn for tortillas, which has a rehydration factor of 2)
in = interplanted with corn
*Based on HTG Intermediate Yields
**Does not include design perennials: raisins and filberts (578 sq ft, 441 daily calories)
#Tiger Eye calories unknown, used figures for kidney beans (1510/lb)

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