Food Storage Planner
Pick your household size and how many months of food you want on hand. The tested engine sizes a staple garden to hit that calorie target, then checks whether protein and fiber keep up. Numbers come from the engine, never invented.
Your storage reserve
6 months of calories for 4, held in your pantry.
That's roughly $4,959 of food at retail — and about 179 standard 4×8 beds if you grow in beds.
| Crop | To hold | Feeds you | Plants | Ground | Grow / Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tomato, paste | 260 lb | 3 days | 26 | 208 sq ft | |
| Squash, winter | 108 lb | 3 days | 9 | 162 sq ft | |
| Sweet Potato | 843 lb | 41 days | 337 | 1377 sq ft | |
| Potato | 942 lb | 41 days | 314 | 942 sq ft | |
| Cabbage | 186 lb | 3 days | 62 | 124 sq ft | |
| Carrot | 112 lb | 3 days | 560 | 94 sq ft | |
| Beet | 107 lb | 3 days | 268 | 67 sq ft | |
| Onion, bulb | 115 lb | 3 days | 230 | 77 sq ft | |
| Garlic | 31 lb | 3 days | 155 | 78 sq ft | |
| Bean, dry | 217 lb | 41 days | 1085 | 1085 sq ft | |
| Corn, dent (grinding) | 198 lb | 41 days | 566 | 1510 sq ft |
“Feeds you” = days this crop alone covers your household's 8,000 calories per day.
Turn this estimate into your saved, printable Playbook — built for exactly your household, your crops, and your ground:
- Grow cards for every crop — sowing windows, spacing, depth, succession
- Grow & put-up calendar on your real frost dates, start to jar
- Storage & preservation plan, container counts, and the freeze-dried option
- Recipes matched to your crops, fresh and put-up
- Bulk seed, start, and gear shopping list
- Saved to your account — adjust and reprint any time
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