Growing your own food has never been more important!

by Robert Leavitt

Growing your own food is a huge deal today.  Food prices have never been higher, and I started this blog to help you out with starting a garden on a shoestring budget.  My name is Robert and I live in the Florida.

The economic crisis has never been more apparent.  Just yesterday bloomberg published this article on rising food costs.  These are weather influenced, however with the rising costs of oil it will never be any cheaper to buy food! read article...

I have gone into the food store several times in the past twelve months and wondered "how am I going to afford to eat five years from now?"  It's getting worse and worse and I can't believe that just a loaf of bread has risen to almost 4 dollars a loaf!  Can you believe it?  100 years ago a loaf of bread cost in the Morris County NJ historic price survey for 1904 shows white bread selling at 9 cents  a loaf.  That's a 2250% increase in price in 100 years!  It's completely absurd, and it will only get worse.

So I have a big culinary background and I know how to prepare many foods from scratch and I thought about baking my own bread.  Making my own pasta, etc... Which are all viable alternatives, however they are time consuming and require at the minimum a huge amount of space.  Plus there is electricity costs in producing these things, all which have to be considered.  So without going all math crazy I came up with another solution!

GROW MY OWN FOOD!

I have a pretty extensive knowledge of growing plants as well, so I decided that I am going to grow my own food and see how this turns out to be.  I have about an acre of land, of which I plan to use about 25% for my first year to see how it goes.  I have made this blog to take you through the journey of being a Gardener and offer some insight and tips to other "do it yourself" types out there.  There are a lot of things to consider when growing a garden, so I am going to offer up some tips and guides to help you along in the process.

Thank you for subscribing and taking this journey with me!  It should be a lot of fun and I hope to make some friends in the process.  Happy gardening.

You can learn more about Robert Leavitt on his Google Plus page.