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H00-07 · Module 7 of 7 · Pages: 21 · Worksheets: 7
The homestead journal: records, measuring, learning
What to record in the garden, the barn, the pantry and your wallet, how to measure success and how to learn something from every season for the next one
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In short
- Record a little, but every day: the weather, what you did, what you picked or collected.
- Kitchen scales are the most important record-keeping tool. Every harvest goes on the scales and into the notebook.
- With animals, records of treatments and withdrawal periods are essential and protect your family's health.
- Five numbers tell you everything: kg per m² of garden, eggs per hen, feed per 10 eggs, % of food from the homestead and hours a week.
- Every December a yearly review: three things that worked, three that didn't, and what you'll change.
What's inside
Chapters
- Why keep records
- What to record: the minimum and more
- Tools for record-keeping
- The garden journal
- Livestock records
- Weather and signs of nature
- Money, hours and the pantry
- Five numbers that tell you everything
- The yearly review: from records to decisions
- Common mistakes
- Printable checklist
Worksheets
- Garden journal
- Egg and feed record
- Medicine and withdrawal record
- Measuring calendar
- Yearly production calculator
- Small trial
- Yearly review
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