Yield Servings People Fed

Crop Yield & Servings Calculator

Use planning-level inputs to estimate total pounds grown, servings, and people fed from a garden or community project. Great for grants, proposals, and “what will this produce?” conversations.

Inputs

Enter your project area.
We normalize to acres.
Use a representative crop category for a planning estimate.
This adjusts yield as a multiplier vs baseline.
If you can grow multiple cycles, scale up output.
Default: 0.30 lb per serving (roughly 1.5 cups leafy greens / mixed produce).
Used only to express a simple “people fed” estimate over 30 days.
Planning-level tool. Outputs are estimates for proposals and comparisons. Local soil, climate, crop variety, and management can shift results.

Results

Baseline vs your selected system (same crop + area).
Estimated pounds (per year)
Estimated servings (per year)
People fed (30 days)

Scenario comparison

Scenario lbs / year servings / year difference
Baseline (conventional)
Your selection ()

How we estimate

  • Crop baseline yield is a planning-level range converted to a single midpoint (lbs/acre/year).
  • System multiplier adjusts yield vs baseline (e.g., intensive, container, spiral).
  • Cycles per year scales total output where climate allows multiple cycles.
  • Servings = total pounds ÷ serving size (lbs/serving).
  • People fed (30 days) assumes servings are used as meals, using your meals/day input.