Cost of groceries another reason to garden

From the garden

Better nutrition and a healthy lifestyle were two reasons given in the April 9 column for growing your own vegetables. Another reason to plant a vegetable garden is in today’s column: cost.

Those of us who have watched and felt prices of produce creep up and up the last few years are not alone. Consumer Food Insights (ag.purdue.edu) conducted a recent survey asking respondents to des…