From the ground up
Cornbread
From the Sowcial team
Whisk the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together. Stir in the milk, egg, and melted butter just until combined, then pour into a hot buttered skillet or pan. Bake until golden on top and a toothpick comes out clean.
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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
Butter, melted
3 quarts of milk
Based on 3 cup per year
0.5 lb of butter per quart of milk
Cornmeal
4 lb of dried corn kernels
Based on 12 cup per year
0.97 lb of cornmeal per lb of dried kernels
Egg
1 chicken
Based on 12 each per year
250 eggs per chicken per year · 4 sq ft each
Flour
4 lb of wheat berries
Based on 12 cup per year
0.95 lb of flour per lb of wheat berries
Milk
1 goat
Based on 12 cup per year
700 quarts per goat per year · 200 sq ft each
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 6 teaspoon per year
0.25 lb of salt per gallon of seawater
Sugar
12 lb of sugar beets
Based on 3.96 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.
Bed 1 of 3
🤝 Interplant beans and squash — The Three Sisters: beans climb the corn stalks and fix nitrogen for both. The Three Sisters: sprawling squash leaves shade the soil and suppress weeds.
22% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
Bed 2 of 3
17% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 3 of 3
🤝 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.
39% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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