{"id":860,"date":"2012-11-04T21:41:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T05:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/?p=860"},"modified":"2012-11-04T21:41:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T05:41:31","slug":"2012-harvest-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/2012-harvest-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 harvest statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally had a chance to compile this year&#8217;s harvest statistics. It gives an interesting, quantitative perspective on what we did in 2012. I won&#8217;t bore you with all the details, I&#8217;ll just give you the highlights, much like the Harper&#8217;s Index of Peace Crops agriculture.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We produced just over 1200 pounds of food on 3,700 square feet of beds for a gross theoretical market value of $3,923 (that figure doesn&#8217;t figure things like loss, which can be significant, and haggling increases)<\/li>\n<li>Our average income in vegetables per square foot: $1.06. That&#8217;s up from $0.82 last year.<\/li>\n<li>In revenue per square foot, garlic was the clear winner, at $5.76.<\/li>\n<li>Potatoes, onions, and root crops made up most of the above-average performers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/eastereggradishSM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-862\" title=\"eastereggradishSM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/eastereggradishSM-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/eastereggradishSM-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/eastereggradishSM.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Easter egg radishes made a strong showing at $2.64\/sf and drew a LOT of people to our stand.<\/li>\n<li>Broccoli was the only green vegetable that performed better than the average.<\/li>\n<li>All of the legumes were below average in revenue per square foot, except for sugar snap peas at $2.48.<\/li>\n<li>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacecrops.net\/CSA\/?p=797\" target=\"_blank\">dried beans<\/a>, if we sold them instead of making awesome chili with them, would be the loss leader at around $0.05 per pound.<\/li>\n<li>Pumpkins did poorly this year, in contrast to their excellent showing last year, where they produced four times as much.<\/li>\n<li>Tomatoes continue to produce poorly, though we got some the last few weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Corn was abysmal this year, and will probably be discontinued for a while.<\/li>\n<li>Cucumbers fell from the pole position last year at $3.43\/sf to the middle of the pack at $1.04.<\/li>\n<li>Surprisingly, bush beans outperformed pole beans by 73%. I feel like the poles were too far apart, and if I doubled the density, I could bring their production up to the same as the bush beans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were a lot more data that came out of the study, boring details that I will use to plan next years&#8217; crop. \u00a0Our goal next year is to increase production without adding any square footage, by intensifying our growing practices and smarter planning. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see how that goes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.PeaceCrops.net%2FCSA%2F2012-harvest-statistics%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally had a chance to compile this year&#8217;s harvest statistics. It gives an interesting, quantitative perspective on what we did in 2012. I won&#8217;t bore you with all the details, I&#8217;ll just give you the highlights, much like the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/2012-harvest-statistics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,36,11],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-garlic","tag-market","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}