Fruit, vegetables, eggs: groceries are more expensive than they have been for a long time. That is why many people consider growing something themselves or keeping animals. How that can succeed.
Everything gets more expensive. Housing, energy, even food. After all, with the latter, individual countermeasures help to save money. Homegrown vegetables and fruit, eggs from our own chickens, honey from our own bees, all of this is easy on the wallet. According to the Federal Statistical Office, tomatoes cost almost 26 percent more in May 2022 than in May the previous year. For eggs it was almost 25 percent, for cucumbers around 18 and for honey still almost ten. The layman cannot produce everything himself for his own use, but a few things are possible.