How Many Fruit & Berry Plants Per Person Do You Need for a Year's Worth of Food

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Just how many fruit and berry plants do you need to grow a year's worth per person in your family? I break down how many fruit and berry plants we have per person, how to choose which options are best for you based on your climate and space, and average yield amounts. Get the chart and info in the blog post at https://melisskanorris.com/230 and snag your copy + bonuses of The Family Garden Plan http://familygardenplan.com to grow a year's worth of food for you family

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1:25.6	Welcome to episode number 230. In today's episode I'm going to be walking you through how to know how much to plant if your goal is a year's worth of food for your family on fruit.
1:42.0	So specifically, we're going to be walking through your fruit trees
1:45.0	and your berry plants and what you need to know when you are deciding how many of
1:52.0	them to put in.
1:53.8	Now, there's a lot of factors
1:55.7	when it comes to growing your own fruit.
1:59.0	So we're gonna tackle this aspect today, and we are also going to have some future episodes coming up that will
2:06.6	walk you more through the care of them. For more on chill hours and cross-pollination, if you're not familiar with what that means then you want to
2:15.4	check out our previous episode number 169 which is five tips to starting an orchard and growing fruit where I cover those aspects more in depth.
2:27.1	But today I really want us to focus on how many you're going to need per person on average for a year's worth of food.
2:37.0	Welcome to the pioneering today podcast.
2:39.3	I'm your host Melissa K. Norris, best-selling author of three books, including my brand new book, The Family Garden
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