JillOfAllTrades Now • 100%
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
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
