Presentation - PROJECT OVERVIEW 3
This is Version V103-94&
UNDERSTANDING UNITS
IN THE P.L.E.A.S.E APPROACH TO
INTENSIVE ORGANIC & SUSTAINABLE
'VICTORY' GARDENING
a.k.a. "VICTORY GARDENING 2.0"
a.k.a. "VICTORY GARDENING 2.0"
A pefa stands for [Pound of Edibles per (square) Foot per Annum].
A kema stands for [Kilogram of Edibles per (square) Meter per Annum]. A hema is 1/10th of it.
These units are used to evaluate how productive your intensive Victory Gardening project is. Particularly if you want to do anything quantified, so what you do can be compared to similar endeavors or is better understood. This is very useful for group endeavors or semi-commercial, or commercial ventures (market gardening). So there are many reasons why it is a good idea for you to start thinking in pefas and kemas, preferably as you start to do P.L.E.A.S.E. gardening.
The Pefa is a purely U.S. unit, but it can also be used in Myanmar.
The Kema is the unit in use for the whole rest of the world, except indeed Myanmar [former Burma], which expresses its love of the United States [or perhaps its utter backwardness ;)] by using the same units than us.
A Hema is simply 1/10th of a Kema, and is perhaps the most useful unit of the bunch, as you can think of it as a “portion”, in terms of numbers of 100g “portions” per surface per Annum.
[For your information, 1 m2 = 10.764 sqFt and 1 # = 0.4536 Kg or 453.6 g(rams), meaning that 1 Kg or 1,000 g(rams)= 35.274 Oz or 2.205 pounds. Therefore one pefa in international standard units translate into = .4536 x 10.764 = 4.88 Kg/m2. So 1 pefa is approximately equal to 5 kemas or more exactly almost 49 hemas.
The h in hema stands for hectogram (1 hectogram being 100g) and the hema is actually the unit of choice for people who want to think "calories" per portion of 100 g, since a hema is actually exactly that: A portion of 100 g of organic high-quality food locally produced in your own garden. This, the hema, is probably the unit you really want to use.]
Translated into English, these calculations mean that each time you produce about 1 pefa (pound per square foot per annum) using cutting-edge gardening approaches such as the PLEASE approach, it translates into about 5 kemas (Kg/M2/yr or kg (a Kg is 1,000 grams) per m2 or kilogram per square meter, per year) or most closely, 49 hemas, for the rest of the world.
These apparently weird units actually make lots of sense, once you get accustomed to them. Your goal in climates like Coastal Southern California, Florida, Southern Spain and France, coastal Italy and Greece, coastal North Africa, etc, and all subtropical or tropical countries can reasonably be to produce 1 to 5 pefas that is 50 to 250 hemas for each square foot you have under intensive cultivation.
A kema stands for [Kilogram of Edibles per (square) Meter per Annum]. A hema is 1/10th of it.
These units are used to evaluate how productive your intensive Victory Gardening project is. Particularly if you want to do anything quantified, so what you do can be compared to similar endeavors or is better understood. This is very useful for group endeavors or semi-commercial, or commercial ventures (market gardening). So there are many reasons why it is a good idea for you to start thinking in pefas and kemas, preferably as you start to do P.L.E.A.S.E. gardening.
The Pefa is a purely U.S. unit, but it can also be used in Myanmar.
The Kema is the unit in use for the whole rest of the world, except indeed Myanmar [former Burma], which expresses its love of the United States [or perhaps its utter backwardness ;)] by using the same units than us.
A Hema is simply 1/10th of a Kema, and is perhaps the most useful unit of the bunch, as you can think of it as a “portion”, in terms of numbers of 100g “portions” per surface per Annum.
[For your information, 1 m2 = 10.764 sqFt and 1 # = 0.4536 Kg or 453.6 g(rams), meaning that 1 Kg or 1,000 g(rams)= 35.274 Oz or 2.205 pounds. Therefore one pefa in international standard units translate into = .4536 x 10.764 = 4.88 Kg/m2. So 1 pefa is approximately equal to 5 kemas or more exactly almost 49 hemas.
The h in hema stands for hectogram (1 hectogram being 100g) and the hema is actually the unit of choice for people who want to think "calories" per portion of 100 g, since a hema is actually exactly that: A portion of 100 g of organic high-quality food locally produced in your own garden. This, the hema, is probably the unit you really want to use.]
Translated into English, these calculations mean that each time you produce about 1 pefa (pound per square foot per annum) using cutting-edge gardening approaches such as the PLEASE approach, it translates into about 5 kemas (Kg/M2/yr or kg (a Kg is 1,000 grams) per m2 or kilogram per square meter, per year) or most closely, 49 hemas, for the rest of the world.
These apparently weird units actually make lots of sense, once you get accustomed to them. Your goal in climates like Coastal Southern California, Florida, Southern Spain and France, coastal Italy and Greece, coastal North Africa, etc, and all subtropical or tropical countries can reasonably be to produce 1 to 5 pefas that is 50 to 250 hemas for each square foot you have under intensive cultivation.
The Dervaes family at http://www.pathtofreedom.com/ nowadays routinely produces about 2.5 pefas or 122 hemas of the highest quality organic produce per cultivated foot in Pasadena. In 2008, this translated into over 10,000 pounds of the best possible produce for the surface they have available, which is about 4,000 square feet. Pretty good! And even better...
So could you! Indeed, you could do exactly the same! This is NOT rocket science or brain surgery. With proper guidance, a child can do it! And the best proof of that is that children are routinely doing it.
Plus, higher yields are definitely possible with a bit of automation, and, someday, with a bit of agricultural and gardening robotics, and high-tech input.
So could you! Indeed, you could do exactly the same! This is NOT rocket science or brain surgery. With proper guidance, a child can do it! And the best proof of that is that children are routinely doing it.
Plus, higher yields are definitely possible with a bit of automation, and, someday, with a bit of agricultural and gardening robotics, and high-tech input.
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