Does a farm area count in my growing space?

No, and that keeps your figures honest: your growing space counts only the beds you really grow in, not the hedges, buildings and open ground around them.

A farm area frames your land on the map and shows its size in hectares or acres. Your growing space comes from the beds of your field blocks and greenhouses active in the season you are looking at: a block you rest for a season leaves that season’s growing space.

See Draw your farm areas.