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How to Save Cash and Your Health With a Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The Advantages of Gardening The advantages of growing your own vegetables include eating fresh, nutritious food, knowing exactly what has gone into your food, reducing food miles to almost zero, healthy exercise, education for the kids and the joy of producing something healthy for the family. Because the.

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Culling Sustenence For Less

Frugal Luxuries

Unlike grain and corn feed, grass requires no fossil fuel for transport. Less work — To buy meat at your grocery store, you simply select it from the refrigerator case. To buy a side of beef, you need to find a source, perhaps find other beef-lovers to split the cost, transport the meat, and find storage space.

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