Plan your beds, pick your crops, and see projected yields and revenue. Built for Vancouver Island market gardens and farmers market sellers.
Standard market garden beds are 30 inches (75cm) wide with 18-inch (45cm) paths. Tell us your setup.
Pick the crops you want to grow. We will calculate beds needed, yield, and revenue for each.
We will calculate yields using conservative estimates based on BC farmers market data and standard market garden production numbers.
| Crop | Beds | Plants / Bed | Total Plants | Yield / Bed | Total Yield | Price / Unit | Revenue | Successions |
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A quarter acre (10-15 beds at 50 ft) can generate $15,000-$30,000/yr at farmers markets. Master your crops before expanding. Focus on 8-12 crops you can grow well.
Salad mix ($12-16/lb), microgreens ($20-30/lb), cherry tomatoes ($6-8/pint), and herbs ($3-4/bunch) generate the most revenue per bed foot.
A single lettuce bed produces once. The same bed with 8 successions produces 8x the revenue. Plan continuous harvests, not single big plantings.
Campbell River, Comox Valley, and Nanaimo farmers markets run May-October. Victoria markets run year-round. Plan crops for your market season.
Record planting dates, harvest weights, and market sales per crop. After one season you will know exactly which crops pay and which don't.
VI's mild winters allow cold-frame and low-tunnel production of kale, spinach, mache, claytonia, and overwintered leeks from November through March.