1. Crop Sales & Decisions
Groundswell Farm 2016

5. Production Rates Task Crop Rate PER HOUR Notes on the rate Your Name
Greenhouse seeding
Leeks
2 trays
220 trays including sanitizing trays, making blocks & seeding - based on full leek planting time in 2016
Tom
Cabbage & Chinese Cabbage
1.9 trays
easier to seed than leeks, but more time making labels and getting 11 seed varieties
Katie
Other
Multiple crops
5 yards
Spreading compost, 8 hours on bobcat and 8 hours on manure spreader for 80 yards 61
61 trays per 1.5 yard bag of 101 compost from Morgan Composting
Transplanting
Lettuce
180 plants
Hoophouse lettuce at 6 inch spacing and 6 inch row with clumpy soul and small walkway
Kat 40
Sanitize and spray bread trays
12 trays
Make soil blocks for 220 bread tray. Does not include mixing soil or sanitizing trays.
54 trays rinsed and dipped in bleach water
Peppers
300 plants
Potting on peppers all one variety, does not include sanitizing trays or making soil blocks. 1 tray of 132 plants in 23 minutes.
Onion
333/person/hr
this includes rototilling beds, watering via tank on the rototiller and planting by hand. 2 people planted 2000 plants from Deep Grass in 3 hours.
110/ person per hour
This includes rotating transporting plants from Polk Street planting breaking up blocks all the steps in transplanting
Field Seeding
Beets 6
Watering in Direct Seeding using sprinkle top on watering can, middle row
Sara 10
Watering in Direct Seeding using sprinkle top on watering can, outside rows
Tomato
400 ft stakes pounded per hour
Was able to do 200 ft in 30 minutes in tomatoes and beans

7. $200
$200+/hr
Under $100/hr

8. $200
Crops we plan to Drop
$200+/hr
Under $100/hr

9. $200 $200+/hr Under $100/hr Trellis Time Extra Weeding Needs
Greenhouse
Under $100/hr

11. Garlic, Potatoes & Salad Greens
Highest Crop
Top 5 Crop
Good by total sales, sales per acre and sales per labor hour!
Garlic
$35K total sales
$99K/acre
$300/hour
Could significantly increase sales
Potatoes
$12K total sales
$22K/acre
$600/hour
Could increase sales
Salad Greens
$27K total sales (minus donations)
$24K/acre
$375/hour

17. Questions? Comments? Ideas?