[Community_garden] 10,000 pounds of food on 1/10 Acre

[David Kelly]

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> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:07:52 -0700> From: darrols at earthlink.net> To: lizgardens3 at gmail.com> CC: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org> Subject: Re: [Community_garden] 10,000 pounds of food on 1/10 Acre> > If I'm going to eat from the garden its the nutritional quality and > diversity, not tonnage that matters and those cannot be maintained in a > garden on steroids.> > Darrol> > > Liz Gardens wrote:> > The Dervaes family members at> > http://www.pathtofreedom.com> > have been growing about 6000 pounds of food per year for the last several> > years on 1/10 acre. They have a 12 month growing season.> >> > This year they are challenging themselves to grow 10,000 pounds of food on> > their 1/10 acre.> > This is a little less than nine 20x25 foot community garden plots> >> > I started thinking about that rate of production relative to community> > garden plots.> > Their current rate is about 1.37 pounds of food per square foot.> > Their 2008 goal is 2.3 pounds per square foot.> >> > So for a 20x25 foot plot that would be 685 pounds at their current rate or> > 1150 for the new goal> > or for an eight month growing season at the same rates --514 pounds and 863> > pounds.> >> > Does anyone have gardeners who might be interested in trying a smilar> > challenge? Or maybe even people who are already growing gardens that are> > that productive?> >> > Liz> > -------------- next part --------------> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...> > URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20080116/3700352e/attachment.html > > _______________________________________________> > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org> >> > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org> >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________> The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org> > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org> > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
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