Time Spent Tending Veggie Gardens
I spend quite a lot of time tending my veggie gardens, and my daycare kids eat fresh veggies and fruit from it most of the year, and I also dehydrate veggies and use some of them for daycare in the Winter, for example, I can put dehydrated veggies in smoothies.
Many daycare parents love that I do this and it is a selling point. Can I count this time in t/s% or part of it? I would still do this even if I didn't run a daycare, but the reality is that they do eat a significant percentage of what I grow. |
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Originally Posted by Mom2Two: |
Thanks, Tom. So if I figure the dcks eat about 30% of the food I grow, then I'll count 30% of the hours I spend tending the garden, correct?
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Originally Posted by Mom2Two: |
Originally Posted by TomCopeland: |
I have about 800 sf of vegie garden alone, plus 200 sf raspberries, seven fruit trees, grape vines, asparagus, rhubarb, an herb garden and more if I stopped to think about it. I'm not talking about a tiny hobby garden. We really eat out of our garden and so do the dck. Wouldn't the size make a difference in the credibility of # of hours?
20 hours would be unrealistic considering how many meals are served with vegies here. I am completely serious. In daycare meals, we use tomatoes, peppers, peas, spinach, summer squash, pears, we make raisins some years, we let the kids pick raspberries some years. We take out a basin of water and let kids pick their own spinach and peas and wash and eat it. For the Winter, we have Winter squash stored, Long Keeper tomatoes, and dehydrated vegies. The dck grew their own gardens this year too. It's one of our state's quality criteria. Considering how many daycare meals we actually provide vegies and fruit for out of our own garden, 100 hours for the daycare portion of the labor is probably fairly realistic. But perhaps auditors need vegie gardening education. ??? Am I convincing at all? :) |
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Originally Posted by Leigh: |
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