Will you save money? Maybe and maybe not.
But you will have a steady supply of fresh produce that you’ve already paid for.
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Beyond that if the shortages continue, and there’s no reason to believe they won’t, then you have food.
This woman is an idiot.
Quality of the end product is far superior if you use the best seed.
Much of grocery store produce are grown for shelf life, not for taste and texture and edibility.
Nature of the beast.
Problem with garden? Not all plants are suited to your location, so past some basics, the variety goes away.
Many years I've done all this, had a 25'x25' garden. Made good use, many years, with a rototiller, saving some time and effort.
And, I'm happy to say, I have the a best population of well-fed moles, chipmunks, gophers, rabbits and many other creatures to show for it.
Will you really have a steady supply of fresh produce, maybe and maybe not...
Not trying to argumentative, most of the produce the article mentioned has a relative short harvesting season, meaning you will have nothing and then an overabundance then nothing, unless you know how to can, preserve, or freeze the excess supply.
When I was a kid, we usually had 2 gardens per year, one large one in the spring where we grew most of what was listed in the article, then a fall garden with vegetables that grew in cooler weather.
Then my Mother and Grandmother, would can and freeze a ton of stuff, everything from different types of pickles, beans, peas, corn, etc..
We had 3 freezers growing up, on over the refrigerator and two chest types in garage, we also raised our own beef and pork, so we used the freezers a lot.
Now, I would agree with the article, if you like to garden then it’s fun, I like to do it, if I had the room, I would have a small greenhouse and grow stuff in there year round.
I live in NE Florida, so I don’t get snow and ice and can grow stuff year round.
And know where it’s come from.
If you have to BUY EVERYTHING, you are way behind the curve.
(Can teach kids about lots of things with a garden)
1/4 acre is way more than most casual gardeners would be able to handle. a 4x8 spot in the sun is enouigh to start with ONE or TWO items you like to eat. Basic herbs like Mint, Tarragon, Oregano, and Basil are so easy . . .
It takes many, many years to get a real healthy garden into production. These days, most folks don’t (can’t) stay in one place long enough to make that happen.
Most real gardeners I know have used free leftover junk and scraps to “build” their hardscape.
Heirloom varieties make quality seeds to use the next year.
Gardens get refreshed with WASTE from other places like food scraps, quality animal poop, and RAIN and SUNSHINE, cover crops to plow under.
Gardening can be down with very low CASH output. Just takes brains, and a little muscle, or those G-d given things called “Teenagers”.
In my middle class So. Cal. neighborhood during 60s thru early 80s it was common for most people to have gardens and fruit trees which we would rely on for most of our produce during the spring and summer.
I think that was because of the generation our parents came from. Both my and my friends and neighbors parents migrated to California after WW2 from the Midwest, south or east coast where most everybody was accustomed to growing at least some of their own food. But towards the mid-80s that attitude changed and fewer and fewer people grew their own produce due to upward mobility and the real estate boom.
Then the cycle seemed to begin again with the trendy and environmental fascist crowds, including my liberal loon brother and sister-in-law whom convinced me to help him build planters and an automatic drip system for their daughter’s school in 2008. I was very pleased with the finished product when completed but discovered like all fads or fashionable endeavors of leftists and green weenies, the school abandoned the project after one planting season and have never used the planters again. They got lots of attention from the media and probably a big fat grant from the state and federal govs and then moved on to something else.
Just another one of my observations and experiences that confirms most leftists lack the courage of their convictions. If there is effort involved and it requires blood, sweat, tears and cash, let somebody else do it and let the government pay for it.
It’s for the children, you understand.
Meh. Live and learn.
“But you will have a steady supply of fresh produce that you’ve already paid for.”
I do see it difficult to defend a vegetable garden if zombies are roaming around due to lack of food in supermarkets. But, maybe, for people who are really out in the middle of nowhere or have good local defense, it might be possible.
And not one sticker of product of Mexico.
from a woodcut bought back in the 70's in Vermont.....I always loved it.