This website features articles about how to eat healthier for less money. They are excerpts of and a companion to a book I'm writing about this topic. For more information, see my About page.
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A Thrifty Table reader asked if I could give her a calendar of activities for starting a garden. What a great idea for a post! Growing your own vegetables is enchanting and fulfilling. Eating your home-grown vegetables is certainly healthy. Follow me through my gardening year as I describe the ups and downs and present economical strategies for growing my own food.
I talk to a lot of people who like the idea of vegetable gardening, but don’t feel they have the time to devote to it. I am a gardener, but this year, I didn’t plant and tend my usual patch. Still, I got quite a lot of produce out of my garden. How is that possible? Some plants just keep growing weather you tend them or not, and can give you free food for very little effort.
I repeated my June experiment pitting the farmer’s market against the grocery store for produce prices. Why? Because, as a scientist, I feel the more data, the better. The results really knocked my socks off because the farmer’s markets dominated the grocery store…both on quality and price!
On June 24th and 25th, I headed out to four of the largest weekend farmer’s markets in my home town of Colorado Springs to see what was available at this date, which is for us very early in the farmer’s market season, and what it cost. I then headed to the grocery store to see if I could find the same produce and do a head-to-head comparison. I checked prices both at our local regular-sort of grocery store, King Soopers, and then at the more upscale Whole Foods.
