Organic food used to be something you could buy at the supermarket even if your dad wasn’t called Bill Gates. Not anymore; so many people are looking for organic food these days that unpleasant economic laws have had to take control of the situation and really put the price beyond human reach. Ergo, if you want to eat organic and stay healthy, grow it.
That’s easier said than done if you live in the city and don’t have a large backyard. Even if you do, however, capital costs may just be too much. Vegetable seeds may cost too much, or farming instruments; more labor time than you can afford may be required. The way out? Go co-op with your neighbors on organic gardening, and you can optimize your capital costs, and your labor, and even manage to grow organic food on larger pieces of land. This saves money while keeping you healthy.
The good thing about going co-op is that it helps you pool resources together much more efficiently. It’s a well known fact that capital cost is maximum when the volume produced is low. You may have to spend a few grands on some machine that could actually work 3 backyards just like yours. If you only have one, the machine is not used efficiently. But if you are going the co-op way, capital and labor are both used more efficiently. Efficiency equates to lower costs; hence you save money.
If a few of your neighbors have adjoining backyards, go and ask about co-oping together. Plan together on how much food you want to grow. That will give you a good idea about how much labor you need, and what instruments and things you have to buy. Plan it well; you will save a lot of money this way. What’s more, along with the organic food, you will probably grow friendlier neighbors, too.
