Grow a million calories - PEM BB gardening.wood.million

This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEM curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the wood badge in Gardening.

Now that you are serious about gardening, let's put you to the test.  An average person needs one million calories per year.  Let's see if you can grow the average person’s annual food needs.  





To put it in perspective, there are 10,000 calories is in:  
         o 35 pounds of potatoes
         o 26 pounds of sweet potatoes
         o 42 pounds of apples
         o 53 pounds of unsweetened applesauce
         o 10 pounds of prunes
         o 6 pounds of dried strawberries
         o 55 pounds of onions
         o 50 pounds of winter squash
         o 30 pounds of sunchokes
         o 7 pounds of field corn or rye or most grains
         o 7 pounds of dried black beans
         o 4 pounds of sunflower seeds
         o 3.5 pounds of hazelnuts

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
  - Grow, harvest and use 20 or more species totaling 1,000,000 calories
       -  In cases where members of a species are very different from each other they each can each count towards the 20
               - For example, cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage all count despite being brassicas
               - Zucchini, acorn squash and spaghetti squash all count despite being cucurbita pepo
  - Each species needs to contribute at least 5,000 calories and no more than 250,000 calories
  - "Use" means for human sustenance (drying, canning, root cellaring, freezing, fermenting, eating, selling, giving, etc)  
  - "Use" does not include things like animal feed or cover crops
  - Foraging is not allowed for this BB
  - Perennials, biennials and annuals are fine
  - Annuals and biennials need to be grown by you from seed
        - Garlic cloves, seed potatoes and sweet potato slips are allowed to be imported to your site
  - Established perennial plants can be used for this BB
  - No more than 25 contiguous square feet of a given crop in one spot
        - Polyculture is encouraged
  - These can be plants/seeds you planted in earlier badges
  - All food needs to be grown in the same calendar year
  - No hydroponics or aquaponics

Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 min):
  - Several views of garden early in the year with young plants
  - Several views of garden in mid summer from the same vantage points
  - View of food forest, orchard or other perennial systems in mid summer
  - For one-time harvests (potatoes, squash, apples, etc) show the harvest in the field
  - For repeated harvests (tomatoes, lettuce, beans, etc) show a harvest in the field
  - Detail the weight of each species and how many calories it represented