It's very nice to know that what you eat is grown by yourself in your garden. It is also very healthy to work in the garden - it is a kind of recreation. Home grown food tastes much better because it is not treated with various chemical agents. Very little time goes by from picking vegetables and fruits to cooking and consuming them. It is important that we eat locally grown food from the area where we live, not that the food travels thousands of miles away. I think it would also be important to preserve the homegrown seeds and use them year after year.

I understand this feeling! Most of the food my family and I eat is home grown and is a noticeable improvement from store bought!

Here in New Mexico we do do not always have home grown food. We mainly have food shipped in to New Mexico.

i 100% agree with you! my parents started a garden about a year ago in our backyard. At first we thought it was a hassle taming it, watering and everything else. but as we started seeing fruits, veggies and everything WE have grown as a family we started feeling excited. once they were ready to eat, we home cooked them and they tasted amazing. We couldn't tell whether it was because we were excellent gardeners or because we ate all together knowing this was something we grew. We don't use any preservatives or pesticides either, and let me tell you it was so worth starting this garden! It has brought our family closer and eating healthy and saved us so much money then store bought veggies; also, it was convenient. I really do recommend having your own garden as all you need is commitment and a positive attitude!

110%  agree with you my father is a farmer and we live mostly of our own food for meat and potatos an vegtebles it is very useful.