per capita vegetable consumption
these stats are for the US --
broccoli: 6 lbs fresh, 2.5 lbs frozen
carrots: 7.6 lbs fresh, 2.2 lbs frozen and canned
onions: 20 lbs (all)
celery: 6.1 lbs, including celery seed
tomatoes: 18.5 lbs fresh, 67 lbs processed
cucumbers: 6.6 lbs fresh, 5 lbs pickles
cabbage: 9 lbs, including .8 for sauerkraut
potatoes: 125 lbs
bell peppers: 9.8 lbs (chili peppers of all kinds, an additional 6.6 lbs)
winter squash: 4.4 lbs
sweet corn: 8.7 lbs fresh, 9.5 frozen
sweet potato: 5.2 lbs
Looking at it this way gives me the beginning of an understanding of what I'd need to grow to feed an extended family. For example, the broccoli comes to about 2-3 ounces per week, per person. The heirloom Calabrese I grew produced maybe 1 to 1/2 lbs per plant, or 16 - 20 ounces. More if you count the stems. (This year, I was pretty unprepared for doing any pickling.) Or I can just say that I need about 8 plants per person. I can grow 40 plants on a 4'X 20' double-dug plot, so for every ten people, I'd need 2 plots.
That is doable. In fact, looking at this list, I can figure I'd only need about 30-40 beds, total. That's just 3-4 beds per person. Which is kinda amazing.
If you add in fruits, nuts, berries, legumes, greens and grains, as well as some veggies that aren't on this list, I'd guess it'd come to 8-10 beds per person. And that's just how I see it, too. Not vast fields of this crop or that, but 4'X 20' beds, tucked here and there, as well as hoop houses, orchards and berry patches. I can see it.
broccoli: 6 lbs fresh, 2.5 lbs frozen
carrots: 7.6 lbs fresh, 2.2 lbs frozen and canned
onions: 20 lbs (all)
celery: 6.1 lbs, including celery seed
tomatoes: 18.5 lbs fresh, 67 lbs processed
cucumbers: 6.6 lbs fresh, 5 lbs pickles
cabbage: 9 lbs, including .8 for sauerkraut
potatoes: 125 lbs
bell peppers: 9.8 lbs (chili peppers of all kinds, an additional 6.6 lbs)
winter squash: 4.4 lbs
sweet corn: 8.7 lbs fresh, 9.5 frozen
sweet potato: 5.2 lbs
Looking at it this way gives me the beginning of an understanding of what I'd need to grow to feed an extended family. For example, the broccoli comes to about 2-3 ounces per week, per person. The heirloom Calabrese I grew produced maybe 1 to 1/2 lbs per plant, or 16 - 20 ounces. More if you count the stems. (This year, I was pretty unprepared for doing any pickling.) Or I can just say that I need about 8 plants per person. I can grow 40 plants on a 4'X 20' double-dug plot, so for every ten people, I'd need 2 plots.
That is doable. In fact, looking at this list, I can figure I'd only need about 30-40 beds, total. That's just 3-4 beds per person. Which is kinda amazing.
If you add in fruits, nuts, berries, legumes, greens and grains, as well as some veggies that aren't on this list, I'd guess it'd come to 8-10 beds per person. And that's just how I see it, too. Not vast fields of this crop or that, but 4'X 20' beds, tucked here and there, as well as hoop houses, orchards and berry patches. I can see it.