Cash From Square Foot Gardening May Make A Comeback

First it was the Locavores who wanted locally produced food. But today’s headlines shows that growing food in your spare backyard space may really help you make or at least SAVE money.

Fuel prices are causing grocery costs to skyrocket: Era of cheap food ends as prices surge this article reads. My mother in law was used to going to Sam’s Club and buying a large container of cooking oil for $8. It was $11 on Monday. Ouch. And in San Francisco, the headline reads Bay Area Shoppers Asked To Limit Rice Purchases.

Mel Bartholomew - before there was a phenomenon - tells readers how to grow food locally and find customers who will buy almost everything you produce and pay cash. Not bad, eh? But given many rising food costs, you may just want to do this for enjoyment, savings, and recreation. But if you get good at it…who knows?