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Edit:

This is not intended as "how to grow all your food you ever need at home".

It merely provides the vegetables.

You still have to get your grains (and therefore the majority of your calories) from somewhere else.

geteilt von: https://lemmy.ca/post/22193783

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[โ€“] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are loads of fantastic personal benefits to living like this, like having choice of fruit and vegetables that aren't possible to find in supermarkets, no plastic residues from packaging on your food (and no plastic waste to dispose of), getting exercise, fresh air and vitamin D from working in the garden, less carrying groceries around, less need for refrigeration (many veg goes straight from garden to kitchen), health benefits of contact with soil and seasonal diet just to list the first ones that come to mind. Also if your children have contact with animals (even hair and dust left behind by animals) they are less likely to developed allergies. And you're also not helping already wealthy shareholders of food corporations to further out-compete working class people in the market.

It's an absolute winner.

Thanks, I thought the same thing.

Especially the "getting some physical exercise, and reconnecting with the soil" seem interesting upsides to me. We would all need some more of that in today's time it seems.