Value of Growing Your Own

Estimated value

Grocery prices are representative national averages, not today's price at any one store. Growing cost is a simplified one-time seed/transplant estimate and doesn't include soil, water, or fertilizer — see the Soil, Compost, and Fertilizer calculators for those. Perennials (strawberries, blackberries) show their establishment cost against a single season's harvest, so a modest first-year loss is normal — they pay off in following years.