Greenbacks in The Garden

Reader Contribution by Greg Carbone and Backyard Farmer
Published on October 23, 2014
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Much of the interest in edible gardening comes from the enthusiasm over growing one’s own healthy produce in one’s own yard. This backyard farmer and blogger could not agree more. It is wonderful to have your own little (or big) farmers’ market right outside your door.

This season, I found another great reason to get excited about backyard edible gardening. It happened on a rare trip to the local organic food store to buy some heirloom tomatoes. We needed some extras for a big salad we were making and the garden did not have enough available. When I got to the store my eyes almost fell out of my head. Organic heirloom tomatoes were “on sale” for $4.99 a pound! They were normally $6.99 a pound! When did this happen? We hardly ever have to buy produce and we never buy tomatoes from the store (almost never). Just a few large tomatoes would have cost over $16! Needless to say, our salad recipe had to be adjusted so it would not require so many tomatoes.

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