Micro Farms Project - Calculations

Table 4. Worm Farm and goat inputs
	Total food available
Input	kg/year	Fed to goats	Fed to goats	Fed to worms	Fed to worms
		kg/year	kg/day	kg/year	kg/day
1. Legumes	2700	2700	7.4
2. corn	3000	3000	8.2
3. Berry vine	2000			2000	5.48
4. household waste	365	365	1.0
5. goat manure	4745			4745	13.00
6. Home garden	7300			7300	20.00
Total	20110	6065	16.6	14045	38.48

Table 5. Worm farm outputs to Fish Pond
Output	kg/yr	Fed to fish	Remaining for farm
		kg/yr	kg/yr
Worms	960	960
Worm Castings	7300	1200	6100.0
Nitrogen from worm castings	160.6		134.2

Table 6. Nitrogen produced and required by the Microfarm
Crop	space	space	Produce	Fodder portion	Total N required	Total N obtained
	m	m2	kg/yr	kg/yr	inputs kg/yr	kg/yr
1. Black berry	390 m	390	3120	2000	10.24
2. Corn	60 x 20	1200	1000	3000	8
3. Legume beans	30 x 90	2700	2700	2700	10.8	112.5
4. Fish (blue green algae)	20 x 60	1200	2400		36	70.5
5. Goats	20 x 20	100	1095		16.4
6. Goat meat or kids (6)			210		3.15
7. Commercial garden	20 x 23	460	27375		54.75
8. Homegarden	20 x 23	460	14600	7300	43.8
9. Worm Farm	5 x 16	80
Total 1 Hectare		6590	52500	15000	183.14	183