documenting my calories grown

I'm copying the idea of Luke Mitchell's thread to document harvests that will go toward PEP BB gardening.wood.calories. And maybe when that's done I'll keep using the thread to work toward the much more complex million polyculture calories BB.

I should have started this before now, of course, since the tomatoes and zucchini have been rolling in for a few weeks and the raspberries are all gone, but it is what it is and I might be able to back-document the raspberries (my wife was documenting her jam-production on Facebook, so we'll see). And corn, potatoes, winter squash, and beans are all still in the garden, so that'll be the bulk of the calories.

And mostly because everyone likes pictures, I'm throwing down some general scenes of my operation:

OK, it’s summer squash day. This is 76 lbs or 5548 Calories.

Sometimes it's a major harvest like the squash above, but sometimes it's meal time and I just bring in what I need. This was for enchiladas.

I've opted here to use https://www.nutritionix.com/ for Calorie counts at least for any foods they have. In the case of Sea Kale, I also searched around for a short while and came up empty and figured kale was close enough.

408 more Calories! :-)

Tomatoes, amirite?! It's a little over 25.5 lbs, but I'm rounding down to account for the 1020 tray. That makes it 2082 Calories.

OK, next batch:

7.5 lbs tomato = 612 Cals
2.25 lbs apple = 531 Cals
30.83 lbs onion = 6,088 Cals

The next installation in our series includes:
268g of basil (54 Cals)
520g of cucumber (78 Cals)
10.5 lbs of garlic (7140 Cals)
8.5 lbs of tomatillo (1249 Cals)

And also:
331 lbs of winter squash, emergency harvested because it got down to 28F last night (55646 Cals!)
and
30.5 lbs of green pole beans (4287 Cals)

My first variety of potato (22.5 lbs/9502 Cals) and my field-corn (115 ears/~26731 Cals) are in.

I should have held that last image from the post above, because this is the entire balance my potatoes: 167.5 lbs / 70,710 Calories!

Ugh...of course, immediately after writing that was all the potatoes, I found two more batches that I'd stashed over by the couch. But that's OK because I have a couple other end-of-season things to add:

17.5 lbs / 7389 Cal of potato
9 lbs / 1227 Cals of watermelon
4 lbs / 871 Cals of horseradish

I thought I summarized the season last autumn, but I guess not. So here's last season (before I start dropping this year's produce):

'species'	quantity	Calories	notes
summer squash	76 lbs	5548 Cals
chiles	142g	57 Cals
salsa	3c salsa	225 Cals	How does this count against the species requirements?
onion	30.89 lbs	6108 Cals
spinach	116g	27 Cals
mustard greens	4g	1 Cals
sea kale	32g	9 Cals	Unfound, using kale as a guesstimate
kale	46g	13 Cals
tomatoes	33 lbs	2694 Cals
apple	2.25 lbs	531 Cals
basil	268g	54 Cals
cucumber	520g	78 Cals
garlic	10.5 lbs	7140 Cals
tomatillo	8.5 lbs	1249 Cals
winter squash	331 lbs	55646 Cals
common beans, green	30.5 lbs	4287 Cals
potato	207.5 lbs	87601 Cals
field-corn	115 ears	~26731 Cals
watermelon	9 lbs	1227 Cals
horseradish	4 lbs	871 Cals

I regularly just go out and harvest salad fixings, but I almost always forget to document it. But this is the result of three of those that I didn't forget:

lettuce: 212g / 53 Cals
spinach: 34g / 8 Cals
arugula: 51g / 14 Cals
sea kale: 51g / 25 Cals
chives: 67g /  21 Cals
cilantro: 74g / 17 Cals
kale: 111g / 35 Cals
mustard greens: 18g / 5 Cals
cabbage leaf: 47g / 12 Cals
zucchini: 124g / 21 Cals
horseradish greens: 18g / 5

Garlic scape season ended about a month ago here, and we're still eating them out of brine and in frozen pesto. Here's what I harvested:

1949g / 624 Cals

There is still the odd raspberry coming into ripeness in our 28x28 foot patch, but we're done with actual harvesting. I'm calling it at 11.423kg / 5712 Cals. Here I've documented it day by day:

I picked summer squash for the first time this year. All we're growing this summer is the Mexican grey zucchini -- I'll have plenty of these seeds to mix into my pepos for next year.

It's 13.63 kg / 4089 Cals

I'm overdue for a catch-up post!

chiles 538g / 215 Cals
carrot -greens 64g / 13 Cals  -roots 132g / 46 Cals
favas 623g / 2198 Cals
mâche 19g/ 4 Cals
lettuce 13g/ 2 Cals
mustard greens 29g / 8 Cals
tomato 22.37 lbs / 1815 Cals
apples 5.25 lbs / 1243 Cals
bunching onions 3.75 lbs / 544 Cals