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Pancakes
From the Sowcial team
Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt, then stir in the milk, egg, and melted butter until just combined. Cook spoonfuls on a hot buttered griddle until bubbles form on top, then flip. Serve with butter and maple syrup.
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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
3 quarts of milk
Based on 36 tablespoons per year
0.5 lb of butter per quart of milk
Egg
1 chicken
Based on 12 each per year
250 eggs per chicken per year · 4 sq ft each
Flour
6 lb of wheat berries
Based on 18 cups per year
0.95 lb of flour per lb of wheat berries
Maple syrup
15 gallons of sap
Based on 6 cup per year
0.025 gallons of syrup per gallon of sap
Milk
1 goat
Based on 15 cups 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
5 lb of sugar beets
Based on 24 tablespoons 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.
🍁 Sugar Maple
2 trees
Based on ~15 gallons of sap a year
≈ 10 gallons of sap per tap per season
Bed 1 of 2
26% 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.
15% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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