From the ground up
Biscuits and Gravy
From the Sowcial team
Cut cold butter into the flour, baking powder, and salt, then stir in milk just until a soft dough forms. Pat out, cut into rounds, and bake until golden. Meanwhile, brown the sausage in a skillet, stir in flour to coat, then whisk in milk and simmer until thickened, seasoning generously with black pepper. Split the warm biscuits and ladle the gravy over the top.
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These are rough annual estimates based on the grow guide's typical yields, and only cover ingredients you're growing. Anything set to buy is on your grow plan's shopping list instead. Use them for planning, then adjust for your climate, losses, preservation, and actual harvests. Toggle any crop to Hydro to plan it as a hydroponic setup instead of a soil bed.
Baking powder
4 tablespoons of baking soda
Based on 12 tablespoon per year
3 tablespoons of baking powder per tablespoon of baking soda
Black pepper
1 vine
Based on 12 teaspoon per year
2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year · 25 sq ft each
Butter
5 quarts of milk
Based on 72 tablespoons per year
0.5 lb of butter per quart of milk
Flour (for biscuits), Flour (for gravy)
8 lb of wheat berries
Based on 7.46 lb of flour per year
0.95 lb of flour per lb of wheat berries
Milk (for biscuits), Milk (for gravy)
1 goat
Based on 8.25 quarts per year
700 quarts per goat per year · 200 sq ft each
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 12 teaspoon per year
0.25 lb of salt per gallon of seawater
Sausage
14 lb of pork
Based on 12 lb per year
0.9 lb of sausage per lb of pork
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.
🌱 Black Pepper
1 vine
Based on ~0.07 lb dried peppercorns a year
≈ 2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year
Bed 1 of 1
39% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
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