Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Total acreage

I just measured the acreage breakdown with an online planimeter.

The total acreage comes to 70, according to the line Matt J drew. The fields comes out to 11.68 acres, which is 17% of the total property. This is obviously an extremely rough survey, but I followed those treelines on Google pretty carefully. I would be surprised if the field acreage were off by more than a tenth or two of an acre.
In theory, the 17% figure may indicate that the landscape could support some conversion of timber area to cropland or pasture, but this must be considered with great restraint.

Check out the map on the sidebar to see how each field measures up. There is some space that is not measured, namely, the area around the house and doghouse and other potentially semi-exposed places. These spots are ripe for permaculture orchards.

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