[asimilator]

> I can literally grow food in the ground for "free", put it in mason jars and save my food for a year.

This is true only in an extremely pedantic, unrealistic kinda way. If it was easy/free everyone would be growing all their own food.

[germinalphrase]

At least here in the Midwest, people grow food all the time. Can’t grow strawberries in December, of course - but we eat up canned goods from friends/family throughout the winter.