With grocery prices up nearly 3% this year, some Tampa Bay area families are turning to edible landscaping to cut costs and access fresh, in-season produce.
interchange will open reopen in time for your morning commute Monday morning. Well, if you think grocery prices are still climbing, you are right. And we hear you. The latest data shows nearly 3% increase year-over-year Tampa Bay. 28 reporter Michael Paluska tonight highlighting the local voices of farmers showing us how they’re helping families find fresh produce in season to cut costs at the store. >> This is like a jungle that I’m in. in Citrus County at growing back to even where Nick Agar has been showing us how to grow edible, landscaping and really live off the land with prices so high at the grocery store, he says really anyone can do this on their own at home. year and a half ago. There’s nothing here but grass growing back to Eden is a farm. But it feels more like a sanctuary controlled by a higher A regenerative organic faith-based farm in ministry. everything we do here, it’s been making a God. Doesn’t the nature. >> So if you look at the crops, a look at all the trees, everything literally it’s growing just as they would in nature, just organized setting to say farmer Nick Agar has a green thumb would be a huge understatement. >> It’s a vision cultivate the farm to uplift his community and share knowledge with his neighbors, eating local and in seasons the way to do it. fresh eggs, livestock down to the tiniest pollinators are all working in a symbiotic relationship to help heal the surrounded by nature, a place where the community can buy fresh locally sourced food. Every Saturday people come out here. >> The whole chalkboard that has like everything ready that week and they basically place their order and I run out and pick fresh. So I walk up say, Hey, Nic, I want this and you run over there and pick it. all right. you’re just like a restaurant, you come place your order. And then I run to the back and >> we have 36 crops going right now about 10 or sand. Then around 10 flowers at stoke in Gainesville, source to table restaurant acres, farming method is inspiring them to. >> Finally reached out was like, hey, can we come to your farm? We take a look. does it feel knowing that you can have a restaurant and just walk right out here, pick what you need and have the chef Cook. What’s in season. >> Has been pretty incredible. So it’s not something that’s on obtainable for anyone to do in their backyard. This growing season Clade Conley, a James Beard Foundation nominated in Michelin recognize chef will be holding his garden to table skills at Stoke in a new way while educating people on how to cook using only seasonal ingredients. I love to cook. I feel like, you know, taking the stuff on the ground and trying to find a creative outlet for it is a fun challenge for You know, like. >> Turnips. How do you get people to enjoy a plate of Turnip site? A random flour have no clue what it was put to call. Turks cap had discussed. >> Just eat the whole thing. Holding tourist tax I’ve as pretty mild lows. really get in a salad Delicious. Yeah. Exactly. The kind of opens up your eyes are like a grown-up flour. My backyard. Yeah. It will look around see my landscaping and they’re like, wow, that looks like that in my cats. Also edible. And do you feel like there’s trend towards more living with nature living with God living? would say so. Especially since COVID like people were on lockdown there I’ve got to start around a garden cause. On. I’m not allowed to go to the grocery store and to food prices are going up. So a lot of people really woke up and it’s really cool to see that that progression. It’ll be interesting to see how long it lasts. Yeah, it’s been cool in Citrus County with photojournalist Reed Mueller Michael paluska Tampa Bay. 28. >> Every Saturday from now until around June, the farm growing back to even will hold
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Victory gardens!
Should ask how many hours of labor per acre
3%
Everything has doubled or tripled in price in the last 4 years
More like 300%
The end is near
I am in Tampa and I am Growing Over 15 Banana Plant Varieties with a Goal to Reach 600 Plus Banana Plants….Growing Kent Mangoes and Just Started Orange Sherbet Mango Tree……..Built 4 Small Ponds With Waterfalls To Beat This Brutal Heat We Now Face (Global Warming) and Ran a 50 ft square Shade Cloth Across Front Yard………….Great Video and Happy Growing……..
Love it brother
Awesome!
But the Diaper King said grocery prices are down!!
"The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone."
-Bill Mollison (Permaculture: A Designers Manual)
“The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.”
-Bill Mollison (Permaculture: A Designers' Manual)
These quotes aren't JUST about food. Do you knit, sew, repair engines, electronics or bicycles; bake or build? Do you code or design operating systems? …..The list goes on.
All of these skills can be shared cheaplyfreely, to supply ALL our needs.
Time for Victory Gardens Again?
"According to archived USDA fact sheets, there were more than 20 million victory gardens in 1943, which produced 10 billion pounds of food. In 1944, gardens provided around 40 percent of the U.S. vegetable supply. Tomatoes led the list in popularity, followed by string or wax beans, onions, lettuce, radishes, beets, and carrots. Two-thirds of the gardens were in towns, cities, and suburban areas."
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Agriculture
So glad to see younger people doing this. We are retired in NC FL and have a food forest in our backyard and grow veg in raised beds and containers, all on less than 1/4 acre lot.
Started this year. Hopefully next year we are fully eating from our garden.
Will Share🧮
Thanks for reported story🧠
Until the government makes it illegal 🤬
I thought someone was going to bring the prices down on day one? What a load of crap..
It's a great idea.
Beautiful! Thank you! ❤
Ahhh Nick. What most he's missing is giving folks a farm tour. Allowing patrons to volunteer! Faith based, alright .. but as an edible gardener & farmer myself, he declined my request to check out his farm; very politely. Tinge of creepy for sure.
Having chickens and getting fresh eggs is great if you live outside the city limits, but the majority of cities will not let you have chickens let alone turn your yards into a vegetable garden.
more like 3% per day, compounding. i buy the same stuff every week, and every week is a $20 higher. what once was 150, is now 240, in a matter of a few months. and this is prior to the biggggger food price impacts still coming as of october, buckle up buttercups lol. get in them gardens, math ain't mathin.
Beautiful. There is nothing better than farm fresh or home grown fruits and veggies.
Until the State of Flori-duh, Cities, and Counties make it illegal to grow your own produce. Wait for it.
Grow your own fresh fruit and vegetables