Edible Garden Yield Tracker

Everything harvested, weighed, dated and priced at local market rates.

The running total is compelling and students check it obsessively once it starts moving. The value calculation gives a number that can be compared against what was spent, which is the beginning of an honest conversation about whether school gardens pay for themselves.

They usually do not, and that is fine and worth saying.

The page has the harvest log, a pricing method, a running total and a cost comparison. It also has a prompt about what else the garden produced that has no market price, which is where students make the argument better than we could.