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> I did the sums - it takes me 6 minutes of paid work to earn enough to buy a day's calories worth of potatoes. Assuming you have a job to work at. Or that (fo
by throw0101a 5y ago
> I did the sums - it takes me 6 minutes of paid work to earn enough to buy a day's calories worth of potatoes.
Assuming you have a job to work at. Or that (food) supply chains have not gone sideways.
What you grow in your garden depends on (a) whether you're just doing it for fun, and/or (b) if you're offsetting certain risks you're worried about. E.g., how hard is it (for Ukrainians) go get potatoes with a war on? How hard is it to get groceries after an earthquake (or hurricane)?
- gruez 5y ago>Assuming you have a job to work at. Or that (food) supply chains have not gone sideways. If you want to mitigate that I still suspect it's cheaper to buy rice and beans, then stockpiling that, than it is to operate a vegetable garden every year. Not to mention, a stockpile works any time of the year. A vegetable garden only produces food during harvest time. >E.g., how hard is it (for Ukrainians) go get potatoes with a war on? how easy it is for ukranians to get potatoes when the ground has only recently thawed? >How hard is it to get groceries after an earthquake (or hurricane)? How useful is your vegetable garden when everything has been blown away and/or is rotting in the ground from all the water?