edible lawns and saving money

Dedicate a small chunk of your yard to growing cheap, delicious vegetables to save major cash in this tough economy.

The ultimate economic bail-out plan: growing your own food.

02-18-09 STATE COLLEGE, PA—The unemployment rate’s flirting with the 8% mark, and the country’s facing its biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Instead of an economic stimulus package, Congress should be pushing a biointensive stimulus package, says Tania Slawecki, PhD, former director of Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Sustainability. Encouraging Americans to turn their turf-style suburban yards into productive, food-producing minifarms would yield psychological as well as agricultural benefits, she says. “What could be more empowering and stabilizing in this country than people growing most of their food in their backyards?” she said last weekend at the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture’s 18th annual Farming for the Future conference in State College, PA.