Why Grow Food?

There are multiple reasons for learning to grow food:  To save money, to eat healthier, it’s good exercise, and it’s a nice hobby, but perhaps there is an even better reason – it’s nice to know where your food comes from.

It’s probably not possible to grow everything you eat in your backyard, especially if yours is as small as mine (think postage stamp), but you would be surprised how much of your own food you can grow in a small place.

You don’t need farm land, a large yard, or a lot of space, but a little creativity goes a long way.  You can use a raised bed garden, commercially available growing boxes, growing bags, or plastic buckets.  You can even use common flower pots. It’s really up to you.

The food you buy at the local grocery store may have been grown in your own town, in the next town over, or a town 2,000 miles away. You really have no way of knowing.  But, if you grow it yourself you control those variables.

Growing food helps develop a certain source of security for families - security in terms of not being completely reliant on someone else to feed us.  It's an opportunity to learn about food and the work it takes to provide it.  It's an opportunity to teach children about it.

Growing food is becoming a lost art.  Our parents and grandparents grew a large majority of the vegetables they ate.  They grew so much food that they couldn't eat it all, so they canned it for later use and kept in the cellar to preserve it.  They shared it with their friends, their neighbors, and their extended families.  Growing food provided a sense of community.

We look forward to learning, and in some cases re-learning, how to do the things our grandparents took for granted in terms of growing food.

We hope you will join us.

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