i like organic food ..help me out buy in store or raise my own?

Answer 1

You could do both. Raising all your own organic food would be hard to do if you want variety (esp depending on how much land you have, and your location). I've raised some of my own vegies, fruits, meat (rabbit & pigs), milk goats, and had chickens for eggs. When raising the animals, if you purchase food for them, you need to make sure it is also organic (a lot of it has preservatives and/or hormones). Doing my own things like flour never appealed to me, plus would take quite a bit of land to grow the wheat for flour.

I live in a small town (population 3,000), but I'm fortunate to have a littlle, local store that sells all organic (even locally farmed venison). The shop owner buys most of her products from local, certified organic farmers. We also have a farmer's market on Saturday's, as well as farmer's markets at other close-by towns. About 20 minutes away we have a really nice organic food grocery store ... I live near the Central Coast in California, it's a pretty easy area to find a lot of variety in organic foods.

You could also have a co-op sort of thing, get other people you know to grow organics also, then trade w/ eachother for variety.

Answer 2

Raise what you can in the space you have, and supplement that with store-bought organics. All I have room to grow are herbs like basil, sage, and rosemary. The rest of my organics either come from the store or Planet Organics deliveries. (They rock.)

Answer 3

Did you know that organic food is not any more healthy than regularly grown food?