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[quote=Anonymous]It is worth it if you can put in the time (or money) and if you are willing to keep building the soil, and building a fence to keep out the critters in your area (I have no deer, but I think the rabbits around here might be paid vegetable assassins).

Upsides: you can grow all sorts of whackadoo veggies and rare types of regular veggies that you can’t get most places. Seed Savers and Baker Seeds have you covered. 
It’s a great hobby, putting you out in nature and connecting with something other than work or a screen. It gives a real appreciation for the work farmers and farm workers put into our food year round. 
It is a really green habit for the earth, too. Every time you aren’t getting vegetables from California, you’re saving on fuel.

Downside: you do have to preserve it if you want it to last longer than the feast in the summer. That might be canning or you might need a deep freezer. 
A garden is both hands off and intensive. The Ruth Stoat No Till method is ugly as hell (to me) but gosh if that straw didn’t save my soil this winter!

It blows my frigging mind that both my grandmothers had these acre-sized gardens and they had allll those plants and did all that care and preserving. [/quote]

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