This came out in 2009 from a study conducted by the National Gardening Association.
A well maintained food garden can yield an estimated 1 to 2 pounds of produce per square foot of garden area over the course of the growing season. The average 600 square foot food garden can produce an estimated 300 pounds of fresh produce worth $600 and a return of $530 base on an average investment of $70. Manuel Perez City of San José Community Gardens Program 200 E. Santa Clara St. 9th Floor Tower San José, CA 95113 Ph: (408) 793-5533 Fx: (408) 292-6416 -----Original Message----- From: Community_garden [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Finlayson Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Community_garden] pounds of produce per square foot? Hello, All: I was wondering if anyone is aware of a calculator program for estimating the amount of food that is grown on a given area of garden during a growing season? I realize that this is extremely variable, depending on the type of crop grown, the number of harvests, management practices, etc.... but perhaps there is an easy calculator that uses averages and also lets you factor in some of these variables? The purpose would be to help us estimate the amount of food (in pounds) that are likely harvested across all of the community gardens that we work with. I'm sure someone else out there has wrestled with trying to figure out something like this... Cheers, Susan -- Susan Finlayson Community Gardens Program Director Wasatch Community Gardens 824 S. 400 W., Suite 127 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 www.wasatchgardens.org (801) 359-2658 x12 "Empowering people of all ages and incomes to grow and eat healthy, organic, local food." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20131031/6477a060/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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
