~2472'  Irrigated Farm
SPACE & TIME EFFICIENT CROPS
Shopping/Growing Needs Per Pentad/Year Per Person

Food amounts for one full year, seaparated into 5 botanical families and amounts for five day periods. Also includes needed land space to self grow, which is 1400 square feet in yearly planted outside beds, and 1072 permanently planted orchards (742') and Greenhouses (330'). Plan on about 33% more land space for paths and compost piles, so about 1/14 an acre per person.

(The perennials outdoors and those  in the green house need only be planted once. They will continue to produce for many years but will not be prprproductive for a few years while young trees and bushes mature and grow. During that time other crops will need to be grown as substitutes, or produce can be bought or imported. Additional area should also be planted to cpmpensate for crop failure or theft. Potatoes are a good choice for this extra area but they will keep for less than a year.) Greenhouses and Orchards need to be planted for four or more, since trees must be shared.

To plan a garden and orchard, their layout & Size: Garden Layout: Outdoor Fields, Watered Gardens, Tunnels & Greenhouses. (Garden plot plan for Barley focused crops.)

FIRESTAR 5/365 DAY NEEDS

WINDSTAR 5/365 DAY NEEDS
ZEPHYRSTAR 5/365 DAY NEEDS
EARTHSTAR 5/365 DAY NEEDS
WATERSTAR 5/365 DAY NEEDS
The crops chosen for the above  menu were selected based on growing food in a fairly mild mederterranian climate as is found in the coastal mountains of Northern California (Sunset Zone 14, USDA 8b) where summer rainfall is all but non existent. In such a climate it makes sense to lean toward over wintering grains and legumes and oil plants like barley, chickpea, fava, pea, flax and camelina because they can be grown without irrigation and at a time when little else will grow. Emphasis is put on barley over other grains like oats, rye and wheat because it matures a full month ahead of these, allowing longer maturing crops to be planted after them in the early summer. A large amount of garden space is allotted to growing omega 3 rich oils (flax and camelina). This is necessary for health reasons because of the acute dearth of these in the modern human diet. (In more tropical areas or in any climate with warm season rainfall, or an abundance of irrigation water, a greater emphasis on corn and rice would be appropriate and the shrinking of the garden size would be possible. Below is an example of an outdoor farm layout needed to grow most of the annual food in the above menu.)
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