As consumer costs rise, growing what you can at home makes good financial sense.
Food remains one of our biggest ongoing expenses. The 2020 national Pandemic Gardening Survey found edible gardening was particularly important to people on low incomes or those with chronic health issues. Few of us live on farms or acreage, but we shouldn’t let that hold us back.
Neither do we have to own our own home to grow food. Many people successfully produce food in rental accommodation using mobile growing beds and in cities by using containers.
Another idea is to “borrow” space from someone in exchange for a share of your produce. Provided you meet the core needs of plants — sunlight, water, good soil and shelter from extreme weather — you can grow food.
To begin,