I grew up hating tomatoes until we started growing our own. It's like it's an entirely different food

Seeds and amendments. You gotta add more nutrients to the soil or else your yields will start to suffer. Although, there's a lot of permaculture ways to add nutrients for free.

We grow the vast majority of our own veggies, eggs and chicken. Our kids hate store bought food, it's even hard to go to restaurants. We sell a little bit from an on site farm stand to help pay for supplies mostly. Our seeds were $600 this year though. It's a rather large and diverse garden.

I ate a garden grown cucumber for the first time. I couldn't believe how refreshing it tastes!

The supermarket version tastes like filler food.

I can't stand the produce from Walmart. They have to be doing something bad to it for it to taste so bland and go bad so quickly.