what is the best size/workers for orchards?

[LAION TAUCHERT]

what is the best size/workers for orchards?

[Rogue]

You will get a lot of different suggestions on this question. Personally I make my orchards the same size as I make my farms. 8 X 12 or 10 X 10. One farmer can handle it without trouble.

[GhostlyCoffee]

I always make them 7x7 but the above should work fine aswell. Just practice a lttle and make sure you farm/orchard wont need more then one farmer each.(better to make 2 farms with two farmers then one huge farm)

[GameOverRIP]

i read 9x9 :) i'm an OCD freak so i dont like things that aren't square or all in line
15x15 is the biggest you'd ever want to go but that requires 2-3 workers and you qould be getting the last of the harvest right on winter. Sometimes you just have to go with the size that will fit into your city plan

[Bwwaaah]

15x4 and set the number of workers limit to 1 instead of 2.

Why 4 ? Because i can put a house in front of it for shorter path :)
A house usually has 1 to 3 workers so I put one field, one house with road and another field to minimize distance with work.
On long term :
- if it is a field I never had a drop in production. Every year I have 420 food per field (or per worker).
- for orchards it's variant between 210 and 420 depending of the number that are being re-planted

[Spill]

http://banished-wiki.com/wiki/Orchard

1 Farmer 5x15
2 Farmers 12x12
3 Farmers 15x15

[Filho]

i use farms 100-120 tiles. 11x11 10x12, 8x14 and so on, depends on which one i can put and use space best i can. this way with 1 farmer i get 830~ish/per year. a try to max output of my workers. 7x7 or 8x8 are to small, you don't get max from worker so it's waste of time and worker.

[hackersmurf]

15x4 and 7x10 are most worker efficient, both require 1 worker. There's a spreadsheet out there, don't have the link handy, that gives all this info.

[Hogweed Blitz]

Yes, I realize how old this post is, but if people are still looking for this info, I just wanted to add the best info for this. This post has a lot of bad info in it. Take a look at this post, it even has an image you can use for VERY efficient plantings. The best size is 15 x 4 in an EAST to WEST direction, NOT north/south!

http://shiningrocksoftware.com/forum/discussion/3596/4x15-crops-and-orchards-why-you-should-consider-using-them-pics/p1

I just wanted people who are still looking, and find this to get the best info available.

There is also a calculator you can use:
https://banishedinfo.com/tools/size-calculator/orchard