I’ve challenged myself to track my gardening expenses and outputs this year – torture, maybe, but also an on-the-ground way of seeing if it really *is* cheaper to do it yourself. And since I love wartime propaganda (who doesn’t?), I’m fashioning this as the 2012 foodmeonce Victory Garden Challenge. Follow along with me here:

• January: the beginning
• February: the seed extravaganza begins
• March: starting to see some progress
• May: trying to keep up
• June: getting some help
• July: stressing out