Crazy Gas Prices and Free Potatoes — Key Takeaways
Invest in a home garden and from-scratch cooking before buying more groceries — these two moves cut the most food cost and inflation exposure per dollar.
Key takeaways
A broke family of 9 got 3x ROI on a first-year garden by investing in soil, not just seeds
A broke family of 9 got 3x ROI on a first-year garden by investing in soil, not just seeds
- Spent $500 on seeds + $1,500 on compost/mulch on 4,000 sq ft clay soil.
- Harvested ~$6,000 (organic prices) to $8,000 of produce — fully tracked by weight.
- They now replicate this much cheaper by making compost and seed-saving instead of buying inputs.
Diesel hit $10/gal in CA, ~$7 in rural Idaho — and it's the foundational fuel for food inflation
Diesel hit $10/gal in CA, ~$7 in rural Idaho — and it's the foundational fuel for food inflation
- Diesel fuels agriculture and all delivery logistics.
- Fuel cost increases lag into food prices, compounding existing 30%+ grocery inflation over 5 years.
Store-bought grass-fed milk retails up to $18/gal, but a dairy cow costs about the same as regular milk — year one
Store-bought grass-fed milk retails up to $18/gal, but a dairy cow costs about the same as regular milk — year one
- Regular milk: $4.30/gal national average; organic: ~$6; grass-fed organic: $9 per HALF-gallon.
- Model: cow + all feed bought as hay, 3 gal/day, 9 months — break-even to $1,000 below regular milk prices.
- Adding butter, cheese, yogurt, ice cream makes it immediately profitable.
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“There is no inflation in the garden.”
— Carolyn
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