Posts Tagged ‘cost’
Economize with a Home Kitchen Garden
Bad economy = reason to create a home kitchen garden. My last post, Pickles from Your Home Kitchen Garden, explained how I came to make pickles–actually, pickled mixed vegetables–and calculated my savings over buying similar pickles at the local farmers’ market. Here’s an authoritative video on the growing trend toward managing home kitchen gardens as hedges against economic problems:
Here are links to other articles that help make the argument. You oughta create your own home kithcen garden and reduce your cost of living:
- Anything for a Small Kitchen Garden – There’s a fundamental philosophy behind my fascination with the small kitchen garden: don’t bother planting something if you’re not eventually going to eat it. Sure, I enjoy looking at flowers …
- the importance of the kitchen garden – the dismal state of soviet agriculture turned out to be paradoxically beneficial in fostering a kitchen garden economy, which helped russians to survive the collapse. russians always grew some of their own food, and scarcity of …
- planning a kitchen garden – for the first time in my adult life, i have adequate space for a real kitchen garden. we’ve got two boxed gardens in the back yard, a big batch of winterized compost, and big plans. what’sa “kitchen garden”? …
- Your Small Kitchen Garden – Read Trent Hamm’s article in its entirety at: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/03/04/planning-a-kitchen-garden/. A Small Kitchen Garden is Healthful. Gardening, like so many other activities, leads the experienced to comment: “You …