Receta Vegetable Gardening: Grow Your Own Food

Visitors check out the chickens at Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn, NY

To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ~Mahandas Gandhi

One of the best and most delicious ways to add whole foods to your diet is to grow it yourself. It's as organic and cheap as you want it to be! You get to supplement your diet with homegrown fare and you know exactly what goes into it. True, it takes a lot of work (especially in the upfront planting and prepping stage) but it's remarkably satisfying to watch your plants grow and therapeutic to spend time outside gardening. And, you get to throw in some exercise benefits to boot.

With the downturn in the economy, more and more people are growing some of…