The Economics of Growing Your Own Food
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Welcome to my final video of the recent self-sufficiency series celebrating the launch of my latest book: geni.us/SelfSufficiencyGarden - I look forward to seeing you guys next week where it is head down for a new growing season! I hope you find the results as interesting as I did!
@HuwRichards hi Huw , im interested in this book but i live in a different climate ...im in Zone 10 , Mediterranean -- Do you think i can use this book considering we have less rain and more heat down here ? :) Thank you x
Mine should be coming to me in Belgium within the next 2 weeks! 💪🤗
Got ur book yesterday in the Netherlands....love it
Hi Huw, great work on the book & new garden. I agree that everyone can be self sufficient in something but most people don't know where to start. Gardening is a lifestyle change that does require time effort & money. Could please set up 2-3 beds that are dedicated to growing a few herbs, flowers & easy vegetables for newbie gardeners? A lot of people plant seeds or seedlings from the hardware store, then walk away & wonder why they don't grow. Pests are also a bigger issue in other countries. I have netted most of my garden beds for birds & insect barriers but cannot keep the brushtail possums off the apple trees!
Waiting for my book…so excited! As I am starting seeds according to your list a couple of videos ago… 40 broad beans etc.…today you showed 72 m2 growing area. Is that soil with veg growing? If so I need to get out in the garden and fins space for more beds!!! Greeting from Oslo. Love what you two are doing, farmer and chef 🌞🍀🌾
Not to forget the joy of being outside, growing your own organic vegetables. Some years I have managed to grow around half of my veggies on a little less than 20 square meters :D
Well said indeed!!
Me too. I'm self sufficient in veg all summer and then through the winter we eat whatever is available. I only have an average size garden.
There is also all the future medical expenses you won't have because you didn't eat all the poisons in all the store bought food.
*laugh cries in getting sunburnt in 5 minutes even under multiple layers of clothes when its cloudy.*
Being outside is not joyful for me, its pure pain and suffering.
what's non-organic vegetables? 3d-printed?
And there is the added benefit of being in control of what is (or is not) sprayed on your food. That is priceless.
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Some degree of. You never know what next door could be doing with a spraybottle. But yeah.
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 So true! There’s a golf course behind me…so I can only control what I can
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166how do you life each day with so much paranoia?
It’s not paranoia. The FDA does a cost benefit analysis in order to approve usage, not a safe/not safe analysis. China bans chemicals that we don’t.
Can’t wait for my book to arrive! Bought a little farm last week with a gardening area to die for. Serendipity 😃
Massive congratulations 🎉!!!
the adventure is starting now. a bit of warning: gardening is addictive! a garden is never finished, there are always new ideas and projects to try. one way I rate my success of the gardens I have designed for others how they change and grow as people live in them.
You don't need to grow 100% of your food. Every little helps.
Amen! That's exactly what my last video was about!
AGREE 💯
And if u cant plant many, just plant the essentials and expensive ones. Like garlic, onion, shallot, green onion, parsley, basil, chili pepper, etc.
The stuff that we use daily to make our food taste good.
I want to do that but i still live in my parents' house. And the house is full with some useless decoration/ornamental plants like adenium and stuff 😒.
Edit: hope i can move out as soon as possible and can get a job that can pay the rent. Even an apartment unit is okay. I can still plant some small plants indoor.
I want the experience when u harvest your produce like.. at least monthly. I know many of food plants is like.. need 3 months to harvest. And that's why we need to care about the planting time so the harvest time is enjoyable and right
Is there space where you can have your own pots, or even a part of the garden you can use for growing your own? Might have to help your parents to maintain the rest. You could be surprised and find them letting you experiment for encouragement. Personally, I'd be over the moon if any of my grown children had your interest.
I would recommend learning how to harvest seeds for a portion of your crops. This means less money spent and generations of plants that will grow hardier for the climate/soil you are in.
Here in the States and I have your book on order with Amazon. I can't wait to get it in my hands! My daughter (33) who is looking for a home with a larger lot to start homesteading will probably get a copy for her birthday. And this is someone who never showed much interest in gardening before!
Thank you so so much!! And best of luck with your daughter's home hunting☺️
Another consideration, after suffering a severe health crisis in 2020 & 2 years later finding the Medical Medium books, I threw myself into gardening. I'm happy to say after 9 months I'm completely off blood pressure meds & have healed beyond medical expectations. His combinations of food for detoxing & restoring the body is phenomenal. I would really like to become proficient in growing celery as I juice a head daily.. I'm not sure how something like this can be costed out.
i started my garden with just 2 large pots, a large bucket and fabric raised bed. It used up a total of 400 litres of soil and compost combined. I have planted many foods and had success with things like kale, broccoli, chives, cabbage, potatoes and also garlic. I have dabbled with onions, carrots, parsnips but they failed (mainly due to my son being too curious and ripping them out). Now I have a full allotment where I can do this sort of stuff with no interference from family. Also without my mrs going crazy over the fact that I took over the garden. Your tutorials have helped me greatly and I love them! I started with pots, now I have an entire garden to run with
Just a quick thank you for what you do from someone who remembers a young kid doing videos showing how to propagate roses from cuttings over a decade ago. I grew up in NYC, I now have a productive no dig garden in my yard. I also have come to explore my Welsh ancestry. Wishing more and more success in your future, thank you for all the information you have shared over the years
I love my garden so much, it's well worth the effort it takes to do. It brings so much joy every year! That said, there are a lot number of costs to growing your own food that are missed or undersold in this video. Most people will not be able to commit this amount of time or money to growing food (4 hours a week is a huge commitment, as is $4000), and will not get as much yield, and will then not get as much financial value out of their gardens. BUT, that's not necessarily a bad thing. All this is just to say I feel the values of gardening are mostly not financial. Everyone saying this in the comments is right, you can't put a price on the value of being outside in the garden, getting some exercise and enjoying the wonders of growing your own food. And then the value of the amazing flavor that comes from veggies that fresh? Forget about it! So good. I feel like thinking of backyard gardening in solely financial terms, like you say in the video, misses the most important values gardening has to offer.
We are doing the exact same here in Brisbane, Australia.
We have our house block of 600m and we are using available space to be self sufficient.
This year though, we have an aim to upgrade a bit of our infrastructure, but that is because we saved so much money last year by growing our own food.
Thanks for the breakdown, well done!
Being self sufficient the way I do it . Means not buying compost, mulch, fertilizer.
Organic gardening is dirt cheap if you don’t get caught up in buying all the latest gadgets & saving seeds of many plants.
Monday will be my happy day, the book is being delivered that day!! 🎉
So looking forward to it, just in time for my second garden season ❤
My joy is growing organic vegetables to provide for my family's daily meals. Intercropping will be very good to help me have enough vegetables to eat throughout the seasons. A product I make myself will help me feel more secure because I know it is safe ☺
I've found that the best way to store garden produce is to swap it for pound coins, then grow more! The coins keep better on the mantle piece over winter, and can be turned back into food whenever you like! I grow veg, salad and berries, which I sell locally. I also grow seeds, which I sell on eBay, and take cuttings from trees, which I sell locally. I do seedlings in trays for my neighbours, and potted herbs. I don't actually grow much veg. There's not a huge market for it, and most of what I grow is my soup for winter. I sort my own firewood, do my own composting and vermiculture. This earns me well over £1,000 cash each year, with less than £100 going into it. There was some initial investment in a poly tunnel and some tools and seeds, but much of it was salvaged or scavenged second hand. I'm sorted for salad, soft fruit, tatties and herbs. I'm also sorted for soup all through winter.
I've never tried to add it all up. That isn't the point. I know that not only am I making a four figure sum each year, I'm saving hundreds each year on those items, I'm getting the highest quality fresh produce with zero chemicals or food miles, I'm providing my community with cheap, organically grown fresh produce and I'm getting the exercise I need, and the connection with nature we all need into this bargain. If anyone wants to try putting a price on all that, they are welcome to try.
Just out of interest, at what point would you need to report this extra income in your tax report? Do you know?
That depends@@Pikkson on your circumstances. Already working? It goes under 'other earnings' on your self assessment, and will depend on your tax code. On benefits? Universal credit only allows you to keep the first fiver, then they deduct a percentage of your monthly earnings out of your benefits. I think it's 51% now but used to be 61%. If you are disabled like me, you can keep the first £100 a week without it affecting you, then they take a percentage off your disability benefits. I've never found out what the percentage is because I haven't yet earned £100 in a week. I still submit a self assessment for the tax man, but it never reaches the threshold so it comes back as zero due, I think I'd currently have to earn more than £12k in a given year before they'd bill me, but that's down to my current tax code being high. Yours may be lower but it will probably be in the same ball park.
Keep records. In's and out's. All your earnings and expenses, and see what they add up to in a year. DWP aside, you'll have to submit a tax return to HMRC if your earnings are over £1,000 but it's unlikely you'd be due them anything until it hit five figures. The figure in your tax code is your threshold.
Of course, gifting garden produce to family, friends and neighbours is not taxible. Neither is barter or charitable donations, so with a bit of imagination you could be feeding half the village and not even be on the tax man's radar.
Happy gardening!
@@JoesWebPresence Thanks so much for the in depth answer.
And as a chef/gardener myself, there's nothing quite like growing a rare plant/herb and discovering what it tastes like fresh from the garden. It's priceless, in my opinion.
How much does a therapist cost because I feel like my garden provides that service
4 euro and still need it, do not underestimate some people s strugle
@@Karincl7€4 per appointment?
They cost your health, when they make their subsidized prescriptions or repeat what they were indoctrinated with in college.
My copy of the book arrives today... Can't wait to read it we are so excited for our third year gardening 🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍
Wonderful! I really hope you enjoy it 😊
Thanks for all the videos and advice for all these years Huw! Really like the idea of Sam's part of the book with how to preserve a lot of the food...I've ordered my to collect from waterstones tomorrow! 🎉
Our plan is to be as self sufficient as possible, but not with our current tiny garden. Once we have moved and we have access to a bigger garden. As far as the "hungry gap" goes, we will be looking into cold room storage, different methods of food preservation. Best of all you know exactly what is gone into the soil and that no chemicals have been used. Happy growing, its growing season baby! 😁🌻🍅🌶
This video was brilliant. You are just my kind of guy breaking down all the numbers. Yield, area time and cost. This video was very well done and helped me a lot, subscribing imediatly. Keep up the good work
Dear Huw, thank you very much for this video. I was shocked about how little growing space you had and added up our 10 raised beds. We are eating 3 meals a day/2 vegetarian people (eating lots of veggies, herbs etc.). With careful spacing, succession planting +++ I am producing more than we can eat. I thought we had at least your size garden, but realized we only have *47.2 sqm*!! BUT - we live in Italy in a subtropical climate (Monte Argentario) where I can grow around the year. Congratulations on your book, it should eliminate the notion that a small garden is not enough.
Just got my new allotment last week, and, obviously, your fantastic book to help me make the most of it. Very excited about both. Thanks for inspiring me!
Hey Huw! I wonder, do you eat exclusively from the garden? If so, what does a day in your life look like in terms of the main meals breakfast, lunch & dinner? Would love to see you do a video and delve a little further into the self sufficiency topic!
Interesting that you made the price comparison with Waitrose? Notably one of the most expensive supermarkets in the UK.
I devoured the book and put pen and paper to it! Today is my first day applying your method on my brand new 80 m2 allotment 😊
I preordered the book and can't wait to get it! I'm in the US though so still have to wait a while. All of our raised beds are made out of super nice pallets made out of decking boards and we got them all for free. It was more work to build compared to one long board but I'll take free any day. Our big cost was topsoil and compost. We have goats that contribute lots of fertilizer for beds but we'll still have to buy some for a large no till area we are adding on this year.
Your book arrived on Sunday. Great layout, great advice.... can't wait to put it into practice and try the recipes..... well done Huw and Sam xx
Awesome! Thanks for going into all that detail. Something I have wanted to do for a while.
Great video! I hope more people become more self sufficient because of it
This was a really great video on an interesting topic.
I really liked how you tied a monetary value of the food produced - and I can tell you that the value of the same amount of food in the US is double of what it is in Europe! The price of organic vegetables in the US west coast is twice as much as in Europe.
I talked with my grandma and if you have a family member who went through the war i would(depending on how comfortable they are with talking about it obviously) recommend talking with them because a lot of people in that generation had to deal with a very real need to suddenly produce their own food in their backyard while not always having much experience with it. Their choices in crops, how they dealt with things like compost, getting seeds, pest control when many companies where making chemicals for the war effort, etc, etc is a good thing to learn about. If your family fortunately didn’t go through the war or you unfortunately lost that generation there are booklets from that era, either copies you can buy or PDF’s you can download. I think there might even be re-prints being done for some pamflets/booklets, not sure. Many countries in Europe had some kind of centralized effort to have people produce their own food, even in occupied areas. So information more specific to your country should be something you can find.
Good point.
Thank you for your clarity, honesty and inspiration. Hope to start my own garden in a few years, your info helps a lot. =)
Picking several peach trees from a ladder showed me the time for harvest can be worth accounting for.
Grow what you can with what you have, save your own seeds and compost everything if you can use chickens to do your composting for you it will reap massive rewards in your yields. I’m on my fifth growing season and we grow 90% of our own fruit, nuts and veg and approximately 50% of our chickens food, cost outlays are initial seed costs and 15€ a month on chicken feed i do use some raised beds but made out of pallet wood and only for one season (hugalcultured beds) then they get emptied onto the swales in the Autumn.
I suspect that seeds will eventually become very hard to obtain, at least open pollinated ones. I save seed from everything I'm able to successfully grow out. I always more than I need (more or less), so I don't mind giving up some production for seed saving.
I agree. I save seed from many plants and hope to learn to save more. Seed prices are going up.
What a lovely Garden
Like it
My friend thank you for good sharing 😊
Love the financial breakdown, and the book has such a great amount of information as well!
The thing about growing food in your garden is, you gotta figure out what will grow in your garden. It may gonna differ based on where you live. But if gardening is not for you or the ground is not great for growing food which you like, you could try planting fruit trees or keeping animals, like chickens. Every one of these have their costs and work to do, but you could also do a mixture of the 3. Like chickens are great for making your compost, and chicken poop is also a good fertilizer. The only thing I had to do with the fertilizer/compost, is to just bring stuff there(poop, leaves etc.). The rest is done by chickens. You can also give chickens kitchen scraps, like the food which expired, leftovers and what not. So no food is getting wasted.
I'm a few miles away from you -- and I have been trying to convince so many people of this -- and they still go to the supermarket.
Just ordered the book , I have been looking forward to this :D , picked a cauli, purple sprouting and a savoy today. Resullltttt.
Waiting on your book in the US. Working to be self sufficient in veg and some fruit. There are some things I do have buy like avocados and the odd apple. While I do have an advantage in that I garden all year, I need to figure out how to grow some of my favourites when the weather is too hot or too cold such as greens in the summer and tomatoes & cucumbers in the winter. Otherwise, I am trying to eat seasonally. May try setting up a temporary greenhouse situation. Cheers.
Interesting that over about 10 years you'll be working for about $15/hr in net profits! It might seem a little low compared to a second job or side gig, but there are also tax savings to consider. Income is always taxed and most places tax your grocery purchases, too. In comparison they do not tax eating delicious vegetables! When you add the other benefits (getting your fresh air, sunlight, and exercise; guaranteeing freshness and quality of your food; time saved shopping) I think it sounds quite competitive as a "professional hobby." Thanks for the video!
With the time I invest in my garden/yard orchard, I don't think I come out ahead (roses and flowers don't have a payback), but it is something that I enjoy. But perhaps the way my rasperries are starting to grow rampant, I may be proven wrong.
I was reading a book "How Asia Works" which discussed agricultural efficiency and poverty. Large scale farms use less labor and are more efficient, but are less intensive and produce less per acre/hectare then small individually farmed plots. Unsucessful countries (like the Philipines) had large land owners and lots of poor unememployed. Sucessful countries had many small landowners (or small alloted plots in the case of China), which allowed for higher production per acre/hectare and surpluses for export which lead the country on the road to prosperity, and kept people employed.
I was a bit disappointed you didn't do a more detailed break down on the time spent to make the garden flourish.
Will the book be published in Dutch in Belgium?
Please, more videos!!!!
I Have my copy of the book and its very nice
Thank you so much!
@@HuwRichards It arrived on National Book day!, I have left a review for it on Amazon.
Thank you again.
Nice i just dont understand howcome this doesnt have multiple millions views
Just ordered the book to our place here in France.
5:47. The gate opens by itself. The self sufficiency garden is 100% haunted. Did you create that garden on sacred burial ground?!
We efficiently produce 80% of our vegetables and fruits to sustain our family of six (two adults, two elders, and two kids) within a 2000-square-foot food garden, dedicating a total of 290 hours per year for two individuals (equivalent to less than 1 hour per day). Additionally, we cultivate 240-300 pounds of wheat annually for bread on a separate 6000-square-foot parcel, employing a three-year rotation system. The remaining 12000 square feet are utilized for cover crops, requiring 30-40 hours per year from one person.
Furthermore, we harvest approximately 300 pounds of honey annually, investing around 50 hours per year for one person, which includes harvesting and extracting the honey.
All these tasks amount to roughly 55 minutes per day per individual.
Importantly, while we refrain from using conventional fertilizers, we produce all the compost and mulch needed for our garden. This approach significantly reduces our costs while ensuring sustainable and eco-friendly practices. Our total savings and revenue amount to approximately $10,000 annually.
Without counting the indirect savings on health.
For us is not a task but a relaxing moment, a task that bring health and joy to our family and optionally let us save some money.
Speaking as a student builder, we do in fact pay very careful attention to how much it costs to create a house. That doesn't mean we don't build houses - but they have to be affordable or the person needing a house won't be able to pay us for them.
Owning your own house and having enough suitable space attached to it to grow a garden like this is so essential to human existence it should be a human right. Everybody needs a house. Everybody needs food.
Being absolutely 100% independent is not only impossible but dangerous. Not being able to do everything ourselves is the reason why humans have a society and the world go round...
5:20 - a cheaper version of a poly-tunnel:
i guess if ones cilmate and space allowes (i am no gardener, just an interested noob) growing bamboo in one corner might be a pretty neat investment.
Immediate like for sharing this information.
as a city person, i need more numbers!! they convince me ^^
IMMV - Aussie backyard veggie patch, only the water goes for about AUD700/year. Definitely a hobby, no chance of self-sufficiency.
Fantastic video Huw! :)
I was just thinking how neat everything was compared to my plot then I saw the watering cans just thrown on the floor
Using your own compost reduces your inputs, it doesn't actually give you income, unless you are selling surplus to someone. On the other hand I feel that time spent in the garden is largely "free" as it often feels like recreation. Unfortunately, the growing season in my part of Canada doesn't allow for much in the way of 'succession' planting. Most things barely ripen between the frosts. Doesn't stop me from trying. : )
i just began watching, very curious, and by minute 1:00 i think:
your parcel's size is roughly around the typical backyard of the "new frankfurt" (or the 'römerstadt' to be precise) built in the weimar era.
it was the idea of humanly living in the city and with workers being able to grow a decent amount of food in their backyard.
the typical modern apartment kitchen (german 'einbauküche') also originated from there. so this is nothing new, an absolutely worth pointing out people can pretty easily™ help themself.
In order to be truly self sufficient in fruit & vegetables, one must make sacrifices regarding what to eat, at least in the UK, as so many things simply aren't available for much of the year.
For example: Every other day, I have a salad lunch, using salad leaves, celery, cucumber, tomatoes & bell peppers. The last three, I can only supply myself for 4-5 months a year.
I do however catch most of my fish & hunt rabbit, birds & deer.
What I'd like is enough space for chickens for both eggs & meat.
While that’s true, I personally wouldn’t call it a sacrifice to adjust your diet to the seasons. Season extenders like polytunnels etc.. and choosing earlier and later varieties usually help extend these seasons as well, depending on where you live off course, that might not be an option for you. Japanese quail might be an interesting option for you, since you don’t have enough room for chickens! With stackable cages you can keep a lot of quail in a small area. It’s wonderful that you can provide your own meat and fish that way! Unfortunately where we live you really need to be acquainted with other hunters and landowners to be able to get the necessary licenses and huntingpermits…
Great videos and books. Started getting better results every year because of them, but now I have trouble storing the food. My garage is attached and too warm. Is there a good alternative that will be cool for storage but also vermin resistant?
Waitrose is one of the most expensive supermarkets in the UK. 😮
How big was your lot to yield nearly 600 kg of food? Great clip by the way!
Great achievment Huw, and a fine example and benchmark to follow, do you have a figure for total bed area excluding the paths?
Have you ever had an indoor garden? I live in the desert but I’m considering using a spare bedroom as a grow room? Thoughts?
What about the most important cost, water?
What a polite and efficient way to slap down all the naysayers 😁👌 great book and video, thanks Huw 👍😊
Glad you liked the review.
Much appreciated!! Thank you so much for your support!!☺️
I'd love to know your production value on that plot expressed in calories.
If you have kids you spend zero hours. You teach them a ton and you need to spend hours with them anyway and it's a nice time to spend together
But the downside is pretty big too.. you cannot get fresh greens all year round, also you need a lot of specialized storage if you want to keep root fruits for a whole year....
Multilevel potato garden, potatoes have all the amino acids the body needs, after potatoes grow what supplements them.
Hi Huw. are you planning any book launch events?
I'm waiting to pick up the book today. Why did you decide build wooden raised beds and not buy the current trend metal beds?
Because I'd have to win the lottery to do that😂
My goal is to grow more and more of my own food until I'm 100% self-sufficient on 80 acres.
Building a big garage shop first.
Grow fruits and vegetables outside during summer.
1. Setup a hydroponics system to grow a continuous supply of leafy greens. 1 "set" of greens per week.
2. Setup system to grow herbs.
3. Setup system to grow tomatoes
4. Setup a year-round solar heated greenhouse to grow vegetables. Potatoes, carrots, radishes, onions, chives, green beans. Etc. Move hydroponics system into it.
5. Aquaponics, integrate fish to the hydroponics system.
6. Chickens for eggs and meat.
7. A cow every other year.
8. Maybe a pig every other year.
9. Grow fruits outside, apples, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and cherries, etc.
Hunt and fish to supplement.
Turkey, duck, venison, salmon, trout, walleye, panfish.
Discussion is great, and respectful criticism is productive. But what surprises me in the comments is the number of people that seem to be getting very angry at this guy. You think his economics are flawed, or this is not something you want to spend time on, fair enough. But the insults and shouting are over the top. I think this shows the degree to which narcissism and self-absorption has spread through our societies.
great information!
This will only work in an area without insane property prices. Because whoever can buy land/plot to get this, will 100% have the means to ngaf and just buy the food in.
One major expense you skipped was the water bill.
Why not grow some to seeds? |This is a genuine question - is there a reason why not?
I do, like peas and tomatoes:)
There are 2,204 lbs / kilogram. How did you get 127 lbs /586 ?
WHAT ABOUT GROWING FOR SALE?
The cost of travel.
The cost saved as your not needing a gym...
The health impact of being outside and moving..ie vitamin d...
Finally got your book! Its been a great tool of inspiration so far, I cant wait to get the garden moving.
Big question about getting seedlings in the ground though. You say your last exp. frost date is mid May, but youve got napa cabbage, peas and perpetual spinach in an uncovered raised bed. Is it because these are pretty frost tolerant? Or because youve picked even hardier varieties for this reason.
Unfortunately this is illegal where I'm from (NZ), because our farmers are like oil barons and have way too much influence over policy.
Also, by spending time in your garden, one might just save some money on therapy. Gardening is good for the body/mind/soul.
The difference is one letter.
Planning VS planting.
Austria. We have to pay 10%tax on food. To me that is enough reason to grow my own food.
the thing is when u have to buy in shop u need money which u make in job where is TAXED to buy food that is TAXED to make money for the shop that is TAXED not mention trasnsportation- also TAXED( job, car , gas) but if u do some labour in ur garden there is no TAX so u can save something around 40-50% in TAXES thats about money all other things are better too like quality of food or taste dont mention that if u grow permaculture u every year u do less and less work but have more and more yield
5:46 there is a ghost behind you careful
the land is the real cost
i saw the thumbnail and i thought it was just a cool ass minecraft shader
500 kilos for 3000 pounds? Where do you sell your vegetables in restaurant? 6$ per kilo is way overpriced, it is more likely $1 a kilo or even 50 cents in season, so that's 250 pounds at start instead of 3000
I love the book and videos about it but I really think you should cost the time to harvest. Yes it is wonderful time, but so is sowing and growing. Farmers can't choose to take that cost off what they produce and harvesting is time consuming.
Add 20/30 minutes a week. Done ✅
Also a farmer is running a business, a backgarden should also be a joy.
A little dishonest using waitrose as the 'average supermarket price'.
Waitrose is a premium brand and ALWAYS comparably considerably more expensive than even the tesco and sainsbury type shops, let alone lidl or aldi.
Your point is that its valuable over time and a great way to be contious of what you're eating, so why make the numbers wonky?
Wish I'd seen this one sooner, but I'm going to comment anyway. Huge fallacy in adding the value of the compost produced to the value of the edible food. After all, if you weren't growing a garden and were sourcing all your veg from retailers, you wouldn't need to buy compost.
Am I the only one who is over Tom Brady Hertz commercials?
Tldr we need farmers