Hubby went back to the market today and sold a bunch of radishes and a batch of lettuce.  The buyers told him that they are eagerly awaiting tomatoes and cucumbers.  I’m pretty excited - I never really thought about selling…  Ok, that’s kind of a fib, because I’ve always said that if we lived at the farm and one of us could farm “full time” I would do a garden twice the size and have a real country farm stand.  I just never thought about taking the excess from the garden we already have and selling them at market. 

Right now we’ve made enough cash to cover about 1/3 of this year’s garden costs.  Of course, the real goal of the garden is to grow & preserve enough veg so that we do not have to purchase. 

Reasons I grow a garden:

• We save a lot of money (for $150 worth of seeds & plants we get thousands of dollars worth of fresh produce)
• We reduce our carbon footprint by not purchasing vegetables that have travelled to market
• We eat healthier since we do not use any artificial fertilizers or dangerous chemical pesticides
• We eat fresher, since all we have to do is pick what we want, when we want it
• And of course, I like to do it - I get to spend a lot of time outside, feel especially connected to the Earth, and weeding is like meditation to me

However, the idea of selling the excess (because there always is) and recouping the monetary costs that went into making the nice veggies grow… that appeals to the Frugal Fannie inside me! WE shall see where this all takes us…