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It's been a while since I made a weird request but here we go:

I'm trying to get some working numbers of bean-yield. How many pounds of beans will, say, a 10 foot row produce?

I can find info for a lotta other food types, but with beans this seems to be privledged info.

HELP!

If we're talking green beans, I'd let you come pick my bean row for half, then you could just double that at the end of the summer and you'd have your answer. Plus some beans.

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I don't know what your problem is but I bet its hard to pronounce.

One can always use examples, to get working numbers...

10 lima bean plants will produce this many pounds of beans.....then you check to see how close to together lima bean plants are typically planted.

Now, the more important question.....

how many cups per pound?

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TANG SOO!

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I don't know what your problem is but I bet its hard to pronounce.

how much does it vary, then? 1 pound per 10 foot row when the conditions are poor? Or 10 pounds per ten foot row when conditions are good? How often, then, does one get good conditions?

With that, I can get working numbers.

AL; I'm working on the premise: how much arceage would a small community need if it intends to meet all it's living needs(Food, fuel, clothing).

To start on this, I had to have a idea how much people would eat and what. Beans are such useful food-stuff, I couldn't see not including a array of them in the diet.

I believe it ended up whereever old threads go to sleep.

I've already PM'ed Johnnie about it. I wanted to see if I could work out the acreage for myself.

It's gotten a bit involved, as you can probably already tell!

Well, Johnnie must have had a copy, because I got the info.

This is clearly going to be a project. I still have to figure livestock into things.

Here's the 'raw' figures Johnnie gave me....

9 acres......grain
1/2 acre...ext. garden
1/2 acre green house and earthship
1 and 1/3 acre.... orchard(mixed fruit/nut)
4 and 2/3 acre...woods
11 acres...pasture

this is for a family of 4 people, 2 dogs, a daddy cow and two mommy cows. I forgot if he included fowl; let me check.

No chickens, but add two horses.