While growing your own food has benefits, locally grown food is also a great choice for saving time. It can be more costly to cultivate locally produced food, but it has its benefits. Locally produced food is healthy since the product contains less pesticides and steroids. Food grown locally is therefore fresher, which means that it more likely tastes better and is healthier.

I agree that buying locally grown food is a good alternative to save time. I believe it saves time because the grower has immediate access to the produce, and they don't have to wait for an extended period of time to receive imported goods from across the world. I believe it's more of an advantage to grow your own produce because you can control what is being used to help your plants grow. When you buy from local farmers, there is less of a chance of pesticides being used; however, farmers use different growing methods which can include some pesticides/chemicals.