I had to do some math, and I realized that my previous garden plan does not add up. I knew that I needed to have at least 500 m2 fields, with 100 m²”other”, but I could not fit that into the 3000 m² available. I thought slightly smaller fields would still work, but when I calculated the calories that can be produced in this area, I found it lacking. My initial estimation was wrong; 3000 m² is just not enough. There are two main reasons for this:

1. When making the initial estimate, I grossly underestimated how much space would be taken by the buildings and the paths between them.
2. I completely forgot the sewage cleaning facility, which takes up somewhere around 70 m².

And since the point of this exercise is not to make it work with 3000 m² but to find an area that would work, I enlarged the plot to 3300 m² by adding five meters in the south.

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This allowed me to keep the sewage cleaning facility at almost the same size, to enlarge the five fields into 100 m², and add some raised beds for additonal crops to what would be grown in the fields. And now, after uploading it, I notice that I forgot to correct a typo. I won’t bother correcting it; have fun finding it, if you haven’t already.

In the next post, I will write in detail about how to use the coppice.