Grow my own food

The "deadline" on this dream is Spring 2016 (first planting) and I can't wait.

I love food, so does Hubby. We'll eat almost anything but we really prefer GOOD food.

Like this!

Now food like this is available for purchase in our area but the cost of buying that food is comparatively very high. For an example lets look at green beans:

Green beans in a can cost 49 cents per can here. Green beans from the farmer's market cost $3.00 per pint. The amount of green beans is similar in both situations. So for the cost of one pint of good, fresh green beans I can buy six cans of green beans which don't taste as good and contain a lot of salt but are still green beans. 

There are weeks where our grocery budget is $25 for two people. On those weeks I cannot justify spending 11% of my grocery budget on a side dish for one meal, but I WANT TO. Solution? Grow it. 

The cost of a packet of green bean seeds is about $1.00, one pack of seeds will plant a whole row of beans and produce many, many pints of beans, maybe even more pints than Hubby and I can eat. Extra pints of beans can be converted back into time/money at the farmer's market at a rate of $3 per pint and extra pints can also be canned or frozen for later use so ideally there is little waste. Theoretically some of the beans can even be dried and used to grow more beans the following year. Theoretically it turns into a INFINITE SUPPLY OF GREEN BEANS WHICH I CAN USE TO RULE THE WORLD!!!!

Sorry, not sure where that came from.

So I add my green bean profits (from the farmer's market) to what I saved by not buying green beans at the store (I can use that money for other things now) and subtract the cost of growing the beans and the cost of my time. 

What will I make? I have no idea. 

There are waaayyy to many unknowns in that equation to know if growing green beans is an efficient use of my time. What I do know is I will be getting, for myself and my family, the very best food that can be had. It will be non-GMO, locally sourced, (mostly) organic and FRESH, I will know how much salt is in the can of green beans that I'm opening and I'll know when they were canned. I will also be spending less money at the grocery store which translates to less time at work or more money to use other places. 

Less time, more money, MUCH better food = why this is a dream.