Tag Archives: Food Budget

Dollars from dirt: Economy spurs home garden boom

By Joshuah | Published: March 16, 2009
With the recession in full swing, many Americans are returning to their roots — literally — cultivating vegetables in their backyards to squeeze every penny out of their food budget. Industry surveys show double-digit growth in the number of home gardeners this year and mail-order companies report such a tremendous demand that some have run [...]
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Sticker Shock Moves from the Oil Tanker to the Seed Catalog

By Joshuah | Published: December 7, 2008
The headline above and the paragraphs below are from the most recent edition of Fedco’s seed catalog.  As we have been suspecting (and Fedco confirms) seeds prices have risen dramatically. Oct. 10, 2008: We are in the midst of the deluge now: a financial hurricane the likes of which I never would have imagined. Commodity price [...]
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