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H44-07 · Module 7 of 7 · Pages: 20 · Worksheets: 7
A fruit-processing plan through the season
How much fruit butter, jam, bottled fruit, juice and dried fruit a family needs, how many kilos of fruit and how many trees that is, when to do what and what to buy
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In short
- An adult eats roughly 75 kg (165 lb) of fruit a year (60–90 kg), fresh and processed. Count the family in adult equivalents (AE) as in H00-02: a child of 7–14 is 0.7, a child up to 6 is 0.4.
- For winter, allow 30 weeks without fresh fruit from the orchard, except apples and pears from the store, and add a 10 % margin.
- The family of four in the example processes roughly 150 kg of fruit; with fresh fruit and the store that is 275–320 kg a year.
- Orchards crop in alternate years: plan 25 % more trees or bushes than an average crop would need.
- Spread the work over 10–15 working days from June to November; count up what's left in spring.
What's inside
Chapters
- How processing is planned
- How much a family eats
- Example: a family of four
- From kilos to the orchard
- The season step by step
- Shopping and costs
- Good years and bad years
- At the end of the season: the yearly review
- Common mistakes
- Printable checklist
Worksheets
- Consumption calculator
- Fruit calculator
- Orchard calculator
- Family calendar
- Batch plan
- Shopping and costs sheet
- Yearly review
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