Harvest benchmarking project

The harvest benchmarking project is a collaboration between Growstuff and Permaculture Melbourne to find out how productive home food production can be. It began in September 2013.

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We're on a quest to find out how much food you can produce in a home garden, by gathering and analysing data from food growers around the world.

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How much food can you produce in a home garden? How efficient is small-scale food production compared to mainstream farming? Can you live off what you grow in an ordinary suburban block? Permaculture Melbourne, in collaboration with Growstuff, are gathering data from food growers around the world to find the answers to these questions. If you're a grower of any kind, we invite you to take part by joining Growstuff (http://growstuff.org/) and tracking your harvests.

Technical description:

We ask Growstuff members to track what they harvest, when they harvest it, and how much they harvest. We also ask them to tell us whether their quantities are exact or approximate. This data is aggregated and released under an open license. It may be downloaded as a CSV file or accessed via Growstuff's API (Application Programming Interface).

First announcement
We'll make a first announcement around September 18th, to tell everyone we're working on this.

TODO:


 * Growstuff blog post
 * PM blog post

Launch
The project will be launched around November 2013.

TODO:


 * press release
 * harvest tracking UI screenshots

Press release
Permaculture Melbourne and Growstuff Launch Harvest Benchmarking Project