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Apple Pie
From the Sowcial team
Toss sliced apples with sugar, a little flour to thicken the juices, and cinnamon. Roll out one pie crust disc and fit it into the pan, add the apple filling, dot with butter, and cover with the second crust, sealing and venting the top. Bake until the crust is golden and the filling bubbles through the vents.
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Apples, sliced
1 tree
Based on 72 cups per year
100 lb per mature tree per year · 100 sq ft each
Butter
1 quart of milk
Based on 12 tablespoon per year
0.5 lb of butter per quart of milk
Cinnamon
1 tree
Based on 12 teaspoon per year
1 lb of dried bark per tree per year · 60 sq ft each
Flour
1 lb of wheat berries
Based on 36 tablespoons per year
0.95 lb of flour per lb of wheat berries
Pie crust (double)
6 lb of flour
Based on 12 batch per year
2 double-crust pies per lb of flour
Sugar
27 lb of sugar beets
Based on 9 cup per year
0.15 lb of sugar per lb of sugar beets
Garden layout
What planting these beds could look like
Each square is roughly one square foot of a standard 4×8 ft bed. Planted squares are shaded; the rest is open soil in that bed. Known companion plants share the leftover space in a bed instead of each getting their own. Where a bed grows a single crop, we flag good companions to interplant (shown as dashed squares), and a small border planting of trap crops is tucked in wherever it can lure pests away from your real crops. Both are how you hold pests down without reaching for a pesticide.
Other growing setups
Grown outside a shared bed — logs, grow bags, and other specialty setups rather than garden-bed square footage.
🍎 Apple
1 tree
Based on ~19 lb a year
≈ 100 lb per mature tree per year
🌱 Cinnamon
1 tree
Based on ~0.06 lb of dried bark a year
≈ 1 lb of dried bark per tree per year
Bed 1 of 2
35% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 2 of 2
🤝 Interplant onion and garlic — Two light feeders that share a bed well, with onion scent deterring leaf miners. Garlic's scent helps keep aphids and leaf miners off beet greens.
89% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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