“Root crops are always plentiful and cheap to me”
I am guessing you can buy them directly and no need to go to the supermarket. Tomatoes are very useful and are eaten raw mostly. The 15 old time (now rare) vegetables in the video. They need to be cooked.
After harvest, it’s not unusual to see 50# bags of taters at roadside stands for under $10.
Most of what is grown in state goes to our biggest canning company, Del Monte, but there are a lot of enterprising folks out there, too. ;)