Pretty interesting lecture series here. Trees are less fragile than grain-yielding grasses, not vulnerable to weeds. Nuts are a high-calorie food, so why not get bulk calories from nut-orchards instead of fields of broadacre crops?
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=CJpitVC4mzs
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=vINVDKJQKcU
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=N862oye1HTY
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=y1NB1O7sLMs
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZzT6lF2Fjc
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=3PWjMQllTpo
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=IsW0icwlnuo
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=jpTXVWmv4I8
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=ErgHXYIJidU
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=E73t7DU6zZI
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Okay, but what came in the mail today?
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Nuts are significantly more land intensive per calorie than grains
I don’t really agree.
Grains
- Call oats 4 t/ha, 389 kcal/100g
- Call rice 3.9 t/ha, 129 kcal/100g
- Call wheat 3.5 t/ha, 389 kcal/100g
Nuts
- Chestnuts get 8 t/ha – https://www.fao.org/4/Y4351E/y4351e0c.htm – and have about 196 kcal/100g
- Almonds get 4 t/ha – https://www.permaculturenews.org/2012/02/25/perennial-staple-crops-of-the-world/ – and have a mighty 578 kcal/100g
- Hazelnuts get 2.27 t/ha (2000lb/acre is conservative) and have 628 kcal/100g
Ranking in kcal/m²/year
- Almond 2312
- Chestnut 1568
- Oats 1556
- Hazelnut 1426
- Wheat 1152
- Rice 503
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