Is Growing Your Own Food “Worth It?”
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- What we save, and what we spend, to grow (some of) our own food at home
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Great video. We've spent a lot on seed starting equipment, wood for beds, soil amendments, etc. After four years I know I'm still in the red as far as my budget but nothing beats walking in the house with a full basket of produce that we grew ourselves! Today I was out in the garden for two hours harvesting, weeding, etc., and just watching all the bumble bees and butterflies on the flowers and vegetables made the day special. God is good.
I am most definitely in the red on a cumulative basis with all of my “side experiments.” I budget it all under “education expenses” not to mention you can’t put a price on health…or to your point, joy. 🦋
Interesting. I have gardened my whole life (I'm 79) but I never added up any cost benefit. At our current home which we purchased 5 years ago, I have spent hundreds of dollars on our garden and orchard. However, our food security is awesome. With over 50 fruit trees, 30 fruiting bushes and 2000 square feet of garden- we have enough food for ourselves plus friends and neighbors.
Well done video; keep it up.
Thanks! Sounds like you’ve already achieved what I am hoping to do at our new property. Are the fruit trees fully producing, already?
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. So well put together!
Thank you! 😁
Growing your food is therapeutic and growing native plants will make you feel less suicidal thoughts like Crimes Pays But Botanist Doesn't mention in his RUclips channel.
Thank you for being so honest, I really appreciate it. I was looking at my upfront cost and it did not seem to make sense to me, but watching this has helped a lot. Keep up to good work.
I’m so glad it’s helpful-whenever I make a mistake (so, every. single. year.) I mentally feel the costs adding up, but I still think it’s worth it overall for the quality and variety.
Very great straightforward and informative video, thanks lots. Me and my girlfriend started last year growing our own tomatoes as an experiment, we bought 3 grow bags and 3 already grown saplings, as well as 2 hanging basket tomato plants for a total of about £25 and were shocked that we didn't end up buying tomatoes for 3 months in the summer. this year we have moved to the country and have so much more space to experiment but we're looking forward to planting and growing anything and everything we can, just to see what happens. The feeling of eating food that hasn't flown halfway across the planet or getting scalped by supermarkets just for the privilege of eating organic is an incredibly triumphant feeling.
Liberating, right?! I’m slowly working my way up to not buying groceries, but that’s still several years (and a serious greenhouse) away…
fantastic video! thank you
Thank you! I’m glad that you enjoyed it. 😁
Great video! Recurring water bill costs, property tax for the sq footage of the garden and any irrigation materials should also be considered.
Great point! I discount the property tax since I’m living here, anyway, but water and irrigation materials for sure!
Excellent job
Thank you!
Growing your own food you get better plants quality because you get probiotic, and enzymes unlike the store bought produce are lacking probiotic and enzymes. Home grown taste better than store bought which taste like cardboard. You know what you used in the form of natural fertilizer unlike what the stores provide who knows what they used to fertilized and what kind of pesticides do they use.
All the same reasons I grow my own! I have an autoimmune disease so knowing exactly what I’m putting in my body is important to me.