Originally Posted by robwod

I prefer my own. I put a greenhouse out in the back and we grow our own carrots, potatoes, peas, beans, lettuce, etc. all year round. Pretty neat walking through the snowdrifts and shoveling a path to the greenhouse and you walk inside and it's like a tropical zone.

Fruit is a bit tougher, but we have a couple of kiwi vines, a couple of apple trees "trained" to grow horizontally like a vine, grape vines etc. inside the greenhouse.

The hardest part is finding the right seeds/seedlings that are not GMO, same with fertilizers and soil.

Overall, it's by no means cheaper than just going to the grocery store. And it's more of an interest i have in growing our own food than it is on the debates surrounding healthiness of the GMO stuff. The one thing I can control, however, is that there's no pesticide used -- at all -- which is the one thing appealing to me.

Generally speaking, we try to avoid meat that has antibiotics and hormones in it as well. But that can be difficult at times around here. If I had the land, and the patience/skillset to rear and process my own beef, poultry and pork, I would.