How Much Money You Can Save By Growing Your Own Produce at Home

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.

Worth way more than just the money saved. 😊

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!

Just found your channel. I like your sense of humor. I garden for the taste and mental wellbeing. The work keeps me in shape. ❤

That's what I'm saying. Everyone needs your advice and attitude. Congratulations. You are one of my favorite utube people. 👍

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

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.

Good video. Thank you for spreading a good positive message.

I just started a spreadsheet to track all I harvest this year as well. Keep us updated :)

Great vid, loved it!

Love your videos, keep them coming! Always looking if you put one up! :)

Great video.

Hi Christina Thanks for another entertaining vid.

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 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 😂

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!

Great video!