There are fast crops like radishes, that can be harvested in just 40 days after planting, and then there are microgreens, which can be grown indoors throughout the year. Micro- greens come in many different varieties as they are just sprouts. Just like the old alfalfa sprouts that were popular twenty years ago, micro-greens are sprouts from many different crops like lettuce, broccoli, chia (yes, just like the ones you have spread on those chia pets for over 50 years), sunflower, kale and many others.

Producing microgreens can be a little tricky at first, but watching a couple of videos from experts on YouTube will point you in the right direction. Microgreen crops can take as little as eight days for the quickest crops like radish seeds, they require no fertilizer and because you can grow them indoors, no pesticides. The microgreens are packed with nutrients and vitamins, as you get the goodness from the whole plant wrapped up in a tiny package. Instead of taking a multiple vitamin in the morning, just eat a helping of microgreens at lunch or dinner.

I say lunch or dinner because even though they are popular, those wheatgrass smoothies that some people drink for breakfast will never catch on with me.

Another way to supplement that grocery bill is to go fishing. Less than ten percent of the population in Sullivan County go fishing on a regular basis and most are catch and release fishermen. While we go out to eat and order trout, salmon and sea bass, why not go to our local lakes and catch some perch, crappie and large mouth bass. Having fish in our diet is very healthy too, and unlike saltwater varieties that may contain heavy metals, freshwater fish grow in environments that do not have the levels of pollution that our oceans have.