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  • We should make this more spoken about honestly. I never hear people speaking about specific crops requiring more physical labor than others by strong varying amounts

    I’m not sure if you’re asking this as a pragmatic question or something else. If you mean pragmatic, we could encourage the use of finding alternative means of aquiring the veggies/fruit. Monoculture can also be potentially to be blamed here because it could lead to a gap in the amount of work in a work day depending on the crop you do. Having varied crops over acres could make work days much easier. Community small gardens and rooftop gardens for cities would help. Potentially the use of small-scale hydroponic systems, such as the Aerogarden, coule help. However I’m not sure of it’s overall impact compared to soil grown. Tomato plants give off such an abudance of tomatos that from my experience sustain my tomato use for months, easily. Tomatos arent as important as like legumes or grains, which I’m guessing off of your comments, are easier to harvest. Grains and legumes have a lot more calories. But once again I’m not sure if I’m even answering your question the way you are intending