Remember that a Biointensive focus means that one of
your goals is to produce your own soil fertility and diet
in a reduced space. The 60/30/10 concept is a guideline.
In its simplest form, it refers to the division of your
garden space into 60% carbon-and-calorie crops, 30%
high-calorie root crops and 10% vegetable crops at a
given time for the main growing season. In a more
complex context, one can consider the garden over the
course of a year.
For more in-depth planning tools, consider the GROW
BIOINTENSIVE Diet Design and Planning Program
(available at http://www.growbiointensive.org, or Booklet 31:
Designing a GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-
Farm—A Working Paper. You will be able to measure
your success with the amount of compost that you can
create year after year and the yields and calories
produced by your growing space.
Also consider that the basic 60/30/10 concept does
not explicitly include using any materials exclusively for
the immature part of your compost (for example, alfalfa,
fava beans cut green, clover), however, they are a key
part of sustainability. Remember: the measure to your
success is the amount of food and compost materials
created in your space combined with overall garden
health.
Following are di(erent sample plans. For those of you
familiar with The Sustainable Vegetable Garden by John
Jeavons and Carol Cox, you will recognize the Crst
garden plan as an adaption of the garden presented in
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