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    Home » Garden » Garden Harvest Tally

    Tracking Your Homestead Garden Harvest Tally

    November 3, 2020 by Tamara 9 Comments

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    Today I am excited to share how and why I keep track of my homestead garden harvests using my Vegetable Garden Harvest Spreadsheet which I have now made available for purchase!  

    Do You Track Your Garden Harvests?

    How many of you have thought of tracking your homestead garden harvest? For the last number of years, I have been weighing mine, and logging the results in a spreadsheet.

    I was initially inspired to do so by Mavis over at One Hundred Dollars a Month. One year she grew over 2,000 lbs! It is fun to see how much food you can grow, and this is an excellent way to keep track of it.

    I use this digital kitchen scale and I weigh items as you would find them in a farmers market. For instance, in a farmers market, when you buy carrots, they have greens on them. So when I weigh my carrots, I weigh them with greens on.

    I log in every single thing that I harvest! My Vegetable Garden Harvest Spreadsheet is now available by clicking this link!

    vegetable garden harvest pile of produce on table

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    Challenge Yourself to Grow More Food!

    home grown heirloom tomato harvest

    I like to challenge myself to grow a little bit more food each year. Why? Because someone can always use it! If you can't, first thing you should do is offer it to people who really NEED it! I like to donate to our local food pantry when I have a lot.

    I also decided that this year I am going to try and sell a little bit too, so this will be an experiment. I don't live in a place that gets a lot of traffic, so a cute little farm stand at the end of my driveway is sadly not an option.

    bushel basket full of green, purple and yellow wax string beans

    I am hoping to sell fruits and veggies, as I do when I sell my veggie starts. By utilizing local Facebook groups! Check and see if you have a local homesteading group, if you don't have one, start one! They are an amazing source for networking!

    You may have too many tomatoes, but someone else may have lost their entire crop and have something else you need! If you can't sell them, barter for something you need!

    It is really fun to see how much food you can grow, so I suggest that you all should start keeping a homestead garden harvest tally!

    Get your Vegetable Garden Harvest Spreadsheet NOW!

    fall harvest of sunglower heads winter squash and pumpkins in the grass

     

    Keeping Track of Your Garden Harvest

    I have created a Vegetable Garden Harvest Spreadsheet that is now available for sale, that I have used for years to track my harvests.

    It is a basic excel spreadsheet, and my husband helped created formulas for, that converted the weight in ounces of each harvest, to pounds and ounces. This was a bit tricky, since there are 16 ounces in each pound, not 10! 

    In the spreadsheet, you simply plop in how many ounces each harvest weighs. It not only adds all the harvests together for each item, but then adds them all together at the end so you can see exactly how much food you harvested in a year!

    This works for things you may harvest throughout the year such as salad greens, as well as things you may harvest all at once, say pumpkins!

    small image of my Garden Harvest Tally Spreadsheet

     

    If you are interested in my Vegetable Garden Harvest Spreadsheet, it is now available!

    How Much Do You Think You Can Grow?

    3 large rubber bins full of harvested apples

    It is fun to pick a number, and see if you can beat it. I am challenging myself to grow over 1000 lbs of food this year. Last year I grew 828 lbs 13 oz, so this seems like the next logical goal to beat. It may seem like a lot, but if you grow a lot of pumpkins, winter squash, apples, pears, zucchini, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, carrots.....it does add up fast!

    Here are some fun facts from my garden harvest tally from last year:

    • Carrots: 46 lbs 14 oz
    • Onions: 73 lbs 2 oz
    • Pears: 27 lbs 10oz
    • Peppers (sweet bells): 23 lbs 4 oz
    • Potatoes: 64lbs 1 oz
    • Pumpkins: 299 lbs 3oz
    • Tomatoes: 119 lbs 13 oz
    • Winter Squash: 22 lbs 9 oz
    • Summer Squash: 47 lbs 11 oz

    Preserving the Homestead Garden Harvest

    canning pantry shelves lined with canned goods

    Just one part of our canning pantry down in our basement.

     

    Obviously, if you are like me, and growing close to 1000 lbs of food or more a year, many of you may wonder, WHY?!?!?

    Well, like I mentioned above, not only do I give a lot away, and try to sell some, and eat a lot of it fresh, but I like to preserve a large lot of it. Not only by canning, but by freezing, dehydrating, making freeze ahead meals and meals in jars via canning.

    Yes, it is a lot of work. But there is something so satisfying about feeding your family with food that you grew yourself. I personally don't want to support those mega corporations that put who knows what in our food. So not only is the food I grew at home, grown in a way that I know about, it is also preserved using methods that I can feel confident about.

    Think about that canned soup you by at the grocery store. Do you know how each food product in it was grown? What it was fed? Fertilized with? Sprayed with for weed control, pesticides, herbicides? Do you know what it was preserved with? What additives where added to it?

    canning jars full of chicken soup ingredients

    Jars full of chicken soup ingredients, just waiting to add the broth! This is called raw packing, I find it much easier to do than packing it hot.

    All of these questions are answered, when you grow your own food and preserve it too. Piece of mind, is why I do it. And total utter satisfaction. It all tastes better too!

    Join Me in Tracking Your Homestead Garden Harvest Tally!

    So, are you in? I hope so! See just how much food you can grow, and come share it with us! I hope to see you posting soon! Get your Vegetable Garden Harvest Spreadsheet today! 

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    pinterest graphic with garden harvest images and text overlay Challenge yourself to keep a Homestead Garden Harvest Tally

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    1. Marci

      May 29, 2019 at 3:23 am

      W O W ! ! What a wonderful harvest and I love the idea of your challenge! Just how much food can I grow? Hmmm... I've never tried to track what we are harvesting. Thanks for sharing this thought provoking post at "You're the Star" blog hop! -Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures

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      • Tamara

        May 29, 2019 at 12:19 pm

        Hi Marci! Well, I think you should definitely join us in tracking your harvest! You just might be amazed at how much you actually grow already!

        Reply
    2. Caroline

      May 31, 2019 at 7:50 pm

      I'd appreciate it if you could share your Excel Spreadsheet!

      Reply
      • Tamara

        June 01, 2019 at 10:09 pm

        Thanks for letting me know Caroline! I am working on trying to figure out how to make it available. 🙂

        Reply
        • Shanon Campos

          April 12, 2020 at 1:20 pm

          is it available yet?

          Reply
          • Tamara

            January 19, 2021 at 4:08 pm

            Hi Shanon, it is now available in my shop! Look for the tab up in the menu! Thank you!

            Reply
      • Tamara

        January 03, 2021 at 8:03 pm

        Hi Caroline! It is now available! I have added links to it in this article, or you can check my shop for it!

        Reply
    3. Dawn

      June 08, 2019 at 5:24 pm

      I haven't ever tried to keep track of everything I grew, but 2 years ago, I weighed all my tomatoes. The total came to 315 lbs!!! It was nuts. That same year, I ended up with 75 lbs of sweet potatoes (even though the voles got a fair amount of them). I guess I need to start weighing things this year. Thanks for this, it should be fun.

      Saw you on the You're the Star blog hop. 🙂

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      • Tamara

        June 10, 2019 at 11:13 am

        Hi Dawn! Yay! Hope you join in on the fun! It really can be eye opening how much food you can grow when you track it's weight! Thanks for stopping by!

        Reply

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