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May 5, 2008 4:29 pm US/Pacific
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Save With Dave: Grow Your Veggies
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―
Tonight, I'll shown you how home gardening can help you save more than a thousand dollars a year.
Urban gardens, a place where people come to stock their pantries.
"You can literally live without buying food once your fruits and vegetables start growing," says Classie Parker of Five Star Garden.
Classie Parker says a family of four can save $1200 a year this way, and with grocery prices at an all time high, it seems to make sense.
"Bell peppers, red peppers, you name it, I grow it," says Sharon Jackson, a local garden worker.
This New York suburb organic farm co-op grows everything from arugula to zucchini. Members are charged a fee and collect a box of produce each week.
Similar farms serve people across the country, including right here in the Sacramento Valley for a cost of about $20 a week.
But for those who can't pay that, container planting is a popular alternative.
Seed sales are sprouting for the first time in decades. And when every cent counts, each new leaf can hold the key to making ends meet.
One woman we spoke to says she feels the benefits of home gardening. She's spending $1200 less on feeding her family of four each year.
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