Food Inflation: Gardening Just Makes Sense

The value of the dollar is falling. What is this doing to food prices?

Food prices are rising at a rate faster than the official inflation rate (CPI), squeezing the finances of many American families in the Great Recession (or long slow recovery if you prefer!).

Food Inflation: Gardening Just Makes Sense describes the roots of food inflation and why growing your own fresh fruits and vegetables can make you healthier, wealthier and wiser!

What is causing food price inflation?

• Increased costs (transportation, healthcare, regulation)


• Monetary policies (quantitative easing and other programs)


• Crop and production failures

What can the average person do to combat food price inflation?

People can buy food and save it for future use OR learn how to produce food for a future less dependent on big agribusiness and food trucked in from thousands of miles away. Backyard family gardening can be a fruitful and enriching activity for the entire family that will give you healthy, locally grown food. A family garden can be a way to serve your family organic, GMO free food.