Creativity meets inflation...

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A new little restaurant started out at perhaps the very worst time to start up a business...now. In this age of runaway food cost inflation, they had to think of ways to keep the costs of their menu items down. To do so, they decided to bake their own bread and grow some of their menu specials in a garden in the back. * Something tells me that American ingenuity, like growing eggplants in the back of your restaurant will become more and more common place as the price bite continues. * Innovative Eats~ http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5770429.html * Some people are turning their front and back yards into high end food production outlets. They are often growing high cost veggies for sale and personal consumption. * Suburbanites are realizing that climbing gas prices are making it worth their while to court the restaurants & their neighbors in their area who are attempting to keep up quality and cut cost. Vegetables and fruit are replacing grass as produce prices climb. The more 'exotic' the produce farmed, the more money the yard farmer can make. * Cutting travel miles in this age of rising oil prices keeps quality high, as less travel equals a higher 'fresh' quota. Organic is a further growing premium market for yard farmers to poach. * If the suburbanite choses to make a bigger killing, he or she can choose to build a green house and grow veggies and fruit out of season. Green houses do not need to be costly glass affairs. * http://www.advancegreenhouses.com/cheap_greenhouses_and_greenhouse_kits.htm * Simply growing your produce indoors under growing lights or under lights hydroponic ally takes the guesswork out and brings the cash in. * Soil can be 'made' out of trash. Composting is the art of making ideal soil out of trash. An easy way to make it is~ http://www.cleanairgardening.com/patdesaustum.html * A Google will find plenty of other ways.