A lil experiment.
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With an expected yield of 28 - 38 bushels per acre (an estimate of the average wheat crop yield in Kansas... we'll be optimistic and say you can meet that yield expectation since your crop will be handled better than the rough and tumble way of commercial wheat harvesting.)
1500 square feet is 1/30 of an acre. For rough calculations, let's say you get one bushel of wheat from your plot.
One bushel of wheat makes 90 one-pound loaves of whole wheat bread. (You get more bread from a bushel of whole wheat since you aren't removing as much of the product in processing.) Most bread makers make a 1 1/2 pound loaf so you'd be looking at 60 loaves of bread. Zucchini bread would count more toward the one pound loaf size because the added vegetables make up so much of the loaf.
I'm thinking somewhere in the range of 45 loaves (at a 2 pound loaf size) to 90 loaves, probably a few less since it is your learning year.
1500 square feet is 1/30 of an acre. For rough calculations, let's say you get one bushel of wheat from your plot.
One bushel of wheat makes 90 one-pound loaves of whole wheat bread. (You get more bread from a bushel of whole wheat since you aren't removing as much of the product in processing.) Most bread makers make a 1 1/2 pound loaf so you'd be looking at 60 loaves of bread. Zucchini bread would count more toward the one pound loaf size because the added vegetables make up so much of the loaf.
I'm thinking somewhere in the range of 45 loaves (at a 2 pound loaf size) to 90 loaves, probably a few less since it is your learning year.
10sqft = 1 Loaf
10sqft X 15 loaves = 150 sqft.
10sqft x 150 loaves = 1,500Sqft.
At least according to my pre coffee math. You are looking at 150 loaves.
Wind at your back, stars alligned, and Al Gore stays in his zinc mine in Tennessee.
My uneducated guess is for a first try on new land with a new process, you'll net about half to two thirds of that.
Still the ability to self produce 70 loaves of bread is nothing to sneeze at.
Unless you have a wheat allergy.
10sqft X 15 loaves = 150 sqft.
10sqft x 150 loaves = 1,500Sqft.
At least according to my pre coffee math. You are looking at 150 loaves.
Wind at your back, stars alligned, and Al Gore stays in his zinc mine in Tennessee.
My uneducated guess is for a first try on new land with a new process, you'll net about half to two thirds of that.
Still the ability to self produce 70 loaves of bread is nothing to sneeze at.
Unless you have a wheat allergy.
