"Dimitri" > wrote in message
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> "Mikie" > wrote in message
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>> In the Vegetable Gardening venue, there was a post where the writer
>> felt there was no monetary gain in growing your own veggies.
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>> Well! If you grow a chemical garden, you're probably right! But the
>> gain from an organic garden cannot be measured in dollars! Think!
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>> Mikie
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> Add the value of your labor to the costs and see where you are.
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> Economies of scale would make it unprofitable.
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> No differential for quality as the perception of quality is arbitrary and
> intangible.
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> Dimitri

If you use a highly efficient method such as square-foot gardening, the
labor becomes less of a factor. After the first year, anyway.

On the other hand, if you have a "summer" like we did here, where it rained
every day for about 8 weeks or so, yield can be so extremely low that you're
lucky to recoup the cost of seedlings and seeds.