For the wood badge in food preservation, the requirements are:
98% of the food for this badge is “organic or better”
75% of the food comes from homesteading, preferably from your own homestead
- Nearby homestead or wild harvest (forage/hunting/fishing) is ok
- Their food values need to be “organic or better”
- Acquired with muscle power (bike/horse/foot/dogsled)
- Trade, purchase or gifted is fine
Preserve 1 million calories
- No more than 10% can be one type of thing (i.e. 500 qts of canned peaches)
- 10% bacon, 10% ham, 10% canned pork, is ok
- Must be at least 24 different types of food
- No more than 10% can be frozen
I harvested somewhere around 240lbs of apples from my friends homestead while I was living there. I harvested the apples at no cost since it was a trade for the work I did building rockets and other projects. Each day I harvested a crate or two of apples by foot... and by climbing the trees. However, after my projects were over, I then returned home to my kitchen to process the apples. It's this part that leads me to believe that it doesn't make the cut for "nearby homestead". I'm decided to start this thread and document it just in case it does count.
I can confirm that the apple trees are better than organic; nothing sprayed, cover crops and other bushes grow in between, some apples have bugs, and the goats browse in between the trees.
A nominal amount, <<1%, of the calories came from organic cinnamon that didn't come from homesteading.
At worst, this post counts for 10%* of calories not from homesteading
At best, this post counts for 10%* of calories from homesteading
*Assuming that, since I preserved in excess of 10k calories of apples, I can use only the apple calories and exclude the cinnamon? idk. Food BBs are complicated.
Here's the count of the jars with my calculations:
