This started as a spreadsheet to show you how you can harvest a crop first as a vegetable and then let it go to seed and harvest the seed too. For leafy greens, this can often double the value of the crop or more. But then i realised that this spreadsheet worked just as well … More fsa tip #58 Stack harvests for more sales per bedft
What would you do with some fine 4 gallon pails like these? We use these for seed harvest – harvesting tomatoes, peppers, calendula, strawflowers, mouse melons, anything where we’re picking seed crops and putting them in buckets. We also put cleaned seed in pails like these for storage. But one thing that does not go … More What do you do with 4 gallon pails?
Where do you start with Crop Rotation Design? You start with crop families. Crops in the same family share many of the same diseases and pests. So grouping by family is a good first strategy. Head to your crop plan Add your crop families with some INDEX MATCH Use a PIVOT TABLE to see how … More FSA Tip #40 Add Families To Your Crop Plan
Sometimes you’ve got a couple Google Sheets that you would like to have speak to each other. In my Farm Spreadsheets I use a master crop list with all the growing info for that crop – DTM, yield, spacing, and so forth. I then refer to that crop list from a bunch of other spreadsheets … More FSA Tip #39 Connect Two Google Sheets With Importrange
This was the last Live Farm Spreadsheet from May. How long does it take you to harvest 1 bed of arugula? How about to handweed a bed of carrots? Or wash and pack 100 bunches of beets? If you want to find out there are two approaches: Track everything last thing you do, or better … More FSA Tip #37 How To Track Harvest Rates
Often, you wind up with a spreadsheet that is a long list made up of the same things repeated over and over. This might happen with your harvest records for the season where there there is a row for each crop you harvested from each day you were harvesting. You might only grow 30-40 crops … More FSA Tip #18 UNIQUE – My Favourite Formula