Let’s face it, eating well is expensive… or it can be. Buying produce that is either organically grown (or biodynamically) is not cheap. But ingesting pesticide residue is anything but ideal.
Luckily, you can shave a few bucks off your grocery bill by growing a few of those staples from your diet. Best part, it is much easier than you think! You don’t need seeds or anything fancy. You can simply use kitchen scraps from your next meal. How great is that!
California produces about 80% of the country’s fresh cut flowers — more than any other state, because that is how we roll — yet, less that 25% of all the flowers used in the U.S. are domestically produced.
Growing your own food is a powerful tool to fight food waste and climate change. Food from your garden means fewer food-related vehicle emissions, less packaging, and less waste.
You’ve never eaten a yam. While yams are found throughout the U.S., they aren’t yams. They are sweet potatoes.
