Stacey Sager has the details on how gardening at home helps save money.
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She also grows potatoes, zucchini, lettuce, squash, peppers, carrots and basil! Makes an amazing pesto!. ❤❤❤
"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 (A 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
Bringing back victory gardens should be a PRIORITY! If you can’t grow in a yard then you can do hydroponics it’s very easy.
I’m a gardener. I certainly have not saved money. Perhaps in the long term 10+ years. Though I use raised beds and had to buy soil and beds, which made things a lot more expensive. Directly in the ground is a lot cheaper, but much harder and unexpected. Disease, pests, pestilence, weeds. You have limited control of the soil unlike a raised bed. Can be very frustrating for a beginner.
What Mindy isn't telling you is she has a decade or two of experience. She knows the plants best for her area – she knows how to deal with pests and disease, she knows how to water and fertilize and which plants need what type of care. I started with zero knowledge – only 4 years later am I getting any yield and that's after spending easily 7-10K on beds, soil, fertilizer, seed, books, compost etc. The only crop that's truly worth it if you just want to save money is herbs. They require no skill and are expensive in the store.
But not buying sprayed produce saves you from getting sick. Fresh food is worth all the work
This is awesome!! I wish she would start a YouTube channel so I could follow and learn more of her techniques!
Bell peppers recently were priced for $2/each where I live. It was so nice to be able to go out to my garden and grab a few to cook with. It’s definitely worth it once you develop successful gardening techniques
Our government failing us .. that’s a future to come to survive
Home? You're funny.
Yes I garden and we save money.
Investing in soil etc. pays off once u allow the time. A lot of our vegetable are Asian veggies which cost a lot and cost next to nothing for seeds and get veggie weekly 2-3months.
I have a channel about learning to become self-sufficient. Growing your own food is a learning curve. At the beginning, you have to spent money on equipment, seeds, soil…etc. Once you have learnt how to grow your vegetable the right way, and in the correct volume, you can save money. It might take a few years before you will get your investment back. I have just harvested 4.6KG of cabbages last week, and 5.1KG of Fava beans so far this year. Beside that, you know exactly what went into growing your vegetables. It's totally organic, no growth hormones, or insecticide, or whatever toxic chemical commercial famers used to make the vegetable look big but taste like crap.
My best investments as a gardener have been fruit trees that produce year after year, my asparagus patch, blackberries and raspberries. We built our garden slowly and added a new raised bed every year, we built a greenhouse out of recycled materials and old windows we found at habitat. I encourage everyone to give it a try.
Well, I spent nearly $150 last year in getting garden stuff and supplies and only ended up with $10 worth of tomatoes and chillies. I think if you lie permanently or long term in one place, then it is definitely worth it since it takes a while for returns on investment. However, since my family moves a lot, it is expensive.
Fun thing no one talks about is that if you plant vegitables now it will take 2 to 3 months for it to grow. So unless you have a LARGE open space where you ALDREADY planted some seeds last month and have been incrementally doing so with different seeds it wont replace your weekly trip to the supermarket
Youd be better off having a rabbit farm or a chicken coup
Actually you save a lot of grocery money by growing your own food. Start small with herbs, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and eggplants!
Short answer no, Land, water, fertilizer, labor hour, and equipments are not cheap. When it come harvest time, you won't consume it all before some go bad. you are not making a saving but more for a good feeling.
Now I need to buy a home… maybe my rented room the size of a cubbies can grow mold.
"Most people" are not allowed to garden at home.
Go ahead & try it. But when your plants fail, do
know it's not directly your fault.
Just keep in mind that the expense to start a garden at home it pretty high sometimes depending on what you need. It might take years for you to recoup that investment.