[lil duckies mama]

This is an IMO question...

Which one is better....growing your own fruits and vegetables, buying organic, or buying from a local farmer?

Why do you think this?

[future_adoption_mommy]

I would buy local/organic, but that's because I can't grow stuff. if I tried to grow my own vegtables I would fail miserably.

[lil duckies mama]

See this one is a hard one for me. I love growing my own items but I love buying organic things I cant grow as well as buy from local farmers who do not use pesticides. However if I had to choose one and one alone it would be buy organic. There are several things I do not know or are unable to grow.

[2Corinthians10:4]

I love to grow my own organic items, but the things I cannot grow myself I would rather buy at my local farmers market than buy organic at the grocery store. Statistics show that local food tends to have less pesticides plus it used less natural resources to get to you.

[ChicaChels]

well, we are a farm family and we really like to support other farmers but we grow most of our own vegetables and very few fruits. i definitely prefer farmer's market, hands down!

[MrsSarah1]

I think #1 is buying from a local farmer. #2 is growing your own.

Personally, I find "organic" food to be a giant scam.

First of all, a true organic farm actually causes more enviromental impact to the earth because it takes more room and more resources to produce the food.

Second, an organic farm may not be as "organic" as you may think. For the farm to be accredited, all they have to do is use "natural" pesticides.. cocaine is natural, just for reference.

Third, Buying Earth's Best baby food? Annie's Organic peanut butter? They are a big box brand company just like Pepsi, just like Kraft.. just like anything else. Buying an organic food item at the grocery store does zero for the enviroment because that company is just as wasteful and huge as the non-organic company on the same shelf.

And finally, it's so much more expensive. A gallon of milk is around $3 here. A QUART of organic milk is $4. That's $16 for a gallon of organic milk.

Save your money, save your time, grow your own veggies or look into a co-op farm in your area. We have bought into a co-op for $120 a year, and every four weeks we receive a large box of eggs, milk, vegetables and fruit that is not from some big boxed corporation that slaps the "organic" label on their food just to be able to quadruple the price.

Sorry for the rough opinion but I feel really strongly about this and I just visited the heated debates board.

[beck12]

I buy local & my parents have a good sized garden. Right now for us it makes more sense to expand theirs (which we did0 than all the work it would take to put one in at our house...plus we have too many trees & ones that would have to be taken out really - since many are walnut & they aren't conducive to gardens.... I think we will put a small raised planter in though to grow tomatoes & such for Ds to have more hands on experience...and I do have a small herb garden in one small available space.

[Mod-Lady Valkyrie]

Local farmer and/or growing your own for me. How do you know that the "organic" stuff in the supermarket really is 100% organic? I would rather support small local businesses, plus we have plenty of farms and farm shops around here.