How Much Money You Can Save By Growing Your Own Produce at Home
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- Cost of living is getting out of hand. Are you looking for ways to save money on food? In this video I show you how much money I saved by growing my own produce at home. My 6 garden bed set up is located in Orlando, Florida zone 9b and over the month of March I tallied up everything I harvested and compared it with our local supermarket prices.
The garden beds in this video were purchased a little over a year ago and since then, their price has skyrocketed. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
You forgot saving on gym membership getting workout in the garden. Mental health benefits which is priceless. Teaching kids where food comes from, again priceless. I think the most beneficial things you get from gardening, you cant price, but people seem to forget about them real quick.
I am an old lady in her late 70’s who has only started to really grow food in the last 4 years, concentrating on no dig and permaculture techniques. I grow straight into the ground, and have been steadily increasing my growing space by the use of cardboard, homemade compost and mulch. I recently added up what I have and to my amazement found I was growing more than 50 edibles - the vegetables and herbs mainly from seed, but also fruit and nuts and my main expenditure has been on trees and fruit bushes which will last for years and years - long outlive me. Learning the skills of canning, dehydrating, freezing and making preserves means that I have food all year round, with very little to buy in the supermarket and gardening keeps me and my brain active. I love it and always have produce to give to neighbours and friends.
have been living on less than $12k/yr for the past 20yrs partly because i grow 90% of my food. i also paid off my property. growing your own food is also physical activity and helps your health considerably. since i heat exclusively with wood and process all my own, i get exercise from that as well. i do, however, have a slightly larger garden/orchard than you have. i started with a small one though decades ago. my food forest is just under an acre with many fruit trees and bushes. i go vertical every chance i get and add efficiencies when i can. i highly recommend arborist wood chips 🙂
Thanks for producing another video. I like your style. You keep everything light.
Great video and you are so right. The benefits are far more diverse than saving a dollar. The taste of fresh veg picked minutes before eating it.
The things you can grow that are just not available in stores. The hundreds of varieties you can grow instead of the bland homogenous product on the supermarket shelves.
Even so, with my tiny garden in a similar zone to yours but in Australia, I'd say we save $20-30 a week on groceries plus the health benefits of being out in the garden and doing stuff instead of sitting around. Keep on growing, and posting. Cheers!
Worth way more than just the money saved. 😊
That's what I'm saying. Everyone needs your advice and attitude. Congratulations. You are one of my favorite utube people. 👍
It seems to me any time we do a cost analysis of home grown versus a 'factory' type of production (veggies, fruits, chickens, etc.), there is practically no way we can compete on price. Even when using our own backyards.... They are almost always less money. As you mentioned, though, at least we know what we eat when we grow or raise our own food. Good video!
Looking amazing over there 🌱🌱 one of the exciting things is you can expand little by little ever season.
Ever try sweet banana peppers? I find the produce amazing little abundances
Banana peppers are delicious!
I live quite a way from a grocery store. So I also save on gas.
And chicken feed.
And, as someone else commented, it's entertaining. Especially when I feed the devil, I mean hornworm, to the chickens and watch them chasing each other for it 😂
Agree, it’s not about saving money, it’s a healthy lifestyle choice. Furthermore, it’s the right lifestyle choice we should all be making around the World.
I just found your channel few hours ago and Oh girl I love it!!! I am also a gal from Costa Rica, where 3 Kale leaves vost 4USD and a boc of cherry tomatoes go up to 9USD so I'm hoping I can macimize the produce of my veggie garden! Keep it up, your content and presentation is AMAZING! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 (yes, even the dad jokes! 🫡🫡)!
I just started a spreadsheet to track all I harvest this year as well. Keep us updated :)
Will do and Please share your findings!
😃🎉 Excellent
I subscribed to your channel 🙏
Thanks for the sub! Love your screen name btw!
@@foreverfoodforest You're welcome 😁 Thank you so much 🙏 Appreciate you..
Great vid, loved it!
If you tweak the question a little and someone asks "Is it worth growing your own food?" then the answer is always: "For you? No. For me? Yes"
lol, you are awesome!
Great video.
Love your videos, keep them coming! Always looking if you put one up! :)
Hi Christina
Thanks for another entertaining vid.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice job dear ❤
Great video!
Thanks!
Thanks for the information. I like your calm, matter of fact presentation. A couple of additional benefits of home gardening are working out in nature and its mental health benefits, and the positive impact on our gut biome (which benefits our overall health) from putting our hands in the dirt.
Thanks! Couldn’t have said it better! 🙌
Bravo! Keep growing!
Thank you very much for admiring me video. You are amazing!
Thank you too!
be bold girl ! ...grow yr sunflowers outside of your tubs, in the pathways...the'll be fine, and you'll have more plantingspace, ...grow em on one side and you'll have free beanstocks
Funny you say that because the squirrels got in the sunflower seed and now I got them growing everywhere!
@@foreverfoodforest wanna start a wildlife exchange program... I got a murder of very polite jackdaws planting wallnuts all over and doing a daily lawn grub clearing? However, no amount of sunflower seeding rodents are gonna win it from the sunflower snacking snails this year😪 seems...
The celery joke😂
You are a very Beautiful women😍🌹. Thanx for the video, yes there is no better satisfaction than growing your own vegetables, and the flavor is much better.
One calculation that can't be made is how much does it save on entertainment.
You will spend your time doing something. Most entertainment costs money.
Very true! There's always drama in the garden better than anything on TV these days. The other day I saw a rat running across the fence then a hawk swooped in and carried it off to heaven.
Now ask the snails in my garden how much they save by eating my food.
Those must be some happy snails 😋 🐌
Buying organic is no guarantee that it's organic. The laws governing the designation are chock full o' loopholes.
Some organics are coated with Apeel just as the "regular " produce. Apeel cannot be removed by any means, as it can enter the fruit/veg through the respiratory system of the plant.
A plant cannot differentiate btwn synthetic NPK vs NPK from natural sources.
Just as our body cannot differentiate btwn ascorbic acid/vit C from the lab vs from a food source.
There may be additional natural phytonutrients, which are potentially beneficial, but as for single entity molecules, on the average, the receptors, channels and other metabolic pathways involved in it's use, it's an insignificant/negligible difference in desired physiological response(s).
Not arguing, just truthing.😊
Everything has been, is or will be a gub'mint scam. Not our fiends.
(Crystals are an inert matrix of minerals that confer nothing to the psyche, except an aesthetic pleasure by stimulating our visual cortex. Just sayin')
Thank you for your perspective!
Good video. I am your new friend. I'm happy if we can be friends. Have a nice day.