A few weeks ago my friend started a recession garden to calm her fears about the recession. If she got laid off and couldn’t find a job, at least she had food. Now “sprouties” are appearing in her tiny patch of dirt and she is ecstatic. Green beans! Radishes! Lettuce! She has never enjoyed eating lettuce so much.
“Now the seeds are all sown and, like a miracle, food is growing in my yard,” my friend wrote in the LA Daily News, where she works. “Along with the green things, I regrew some sense of purpose. ”
If you are interested in gardening and/or coping with economic stress, I highly recommend reading her story.
Welcome to Bargain Babe! I’m Mara, and I’m so glad you’re here. I am an obsessive bargain hunter and penny pincher, and I am determined to live a full life without EVER paying full price.
I think you wrote an article before on recession gardening right? If I were to start one, I would for sure do expensive herbs and skip radishes, which cost about 20 cents per bunch at Food for Less. Having said that, there’s a lot to be said for starting small and building successes.