Eight Reasons You Shouldn’t Grow Your Own Food

Contrary to “popular opinion,” gardening is NOT for everyone

GROW, you bastards, GROW!

So you’re thinking of growing your own food? AWESOME! That is an EXCELLENT idea. Growing your own food is one of the best ways to participate in your local meta-entity. It’s a great way to supplement your family’s diet with nutrient-dense and delicious fruits and vegetables, and to save money and reduce your “carbon footprint” by making less trips to the grocery store. CONGRATULATIONS!

HOWEVER!

Here is a thing:

Growing your own food might not be a good decision for you.

I know, I know: if you listen to the Internet Oracles, they’ll all tell you that everyone should be gardening, and that gardening is “so easy” and cheap and we should have food growing everywhere. I mean, look at how easy this guy makes it sound!

Let’s Turn Suburbia Into A Local Food Mecca

Really neat, huh? And I mostly agree, too! Except there’s one thing all of these people miss, and that is gardening can be hard…