Carnival of Pecuniary Delights #9 – The Organic Gardening Edition

Welcome to the 9th Edition of the Carnival of Pecuniary Delights – The Organic Gardening Edition! I am very honored to be hosting my second ever blog carnival today. There are a great collection of long standing personal finance and frugal living posts to choose from this week. A total of 18 posts made the cut.

Today’s theme is centered around a topic that I am very passionate about – Organic Gardening. I am a parent of two young children who love to eat fruits and vegetables (well maybe just a few veggies). My wife and I prefer to feed them organically grown foods whenever possible, while trying to keep our grocery spending at a minimum.

Organic Gardening offers a way to grow healthy and safe foods for your family to eat, while saving you money at the same time. It just doesn’t get much better than that. Having the option to adopt a green living activity while still living frugal is a double win in my book!

Enough about my love for growing organic foods. Let us get to the posts for this week!

Editor’s Picks

One of the most rewarding aspects of growing your own food is that you know where it has come from. Since you are in control, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your fruits and vegetables have not been doused with harmful chemicals and toxins that can damage your body overtime. I know all you parents out there would prefer to feed your children healthy fresh foods instead of products that may contain chemicals.

Here are my favorite posts from this weeks carnival!

Peter from Bible Money Matters presents Are You Building Your Credit, Or Just Going Into Debt?.

Brad Chaffee from Enemy of Debt presents Motivation 101 – YOU CAN DO IT TOO!.

The Happy Rock from The Happy Rock presents Delayed Gratification Will Save You Money.

PT Money from Prime Time Money presents The CD Ladder: A Different Way to Save.

MoneyEnergy from MoneyEnergy presents Off the Waist and Into the Wallet: Save $100/mo. By Fasting for Financial Fitness.

Money Management

To reduce initial costs for starting an organic garden, look to reuse materials around your home that are environmentally friendly. For example – rocks, stones, or leftover brick pavers could be used to build a raised garden bed. Since organic gardening takes a lot of commitment and maintenance, be sure to keep the garden small initially. Don’t go out and purchase a bunch of materials and plants that you won’t be able to maintain.

The Smarter Wallet from The Smarter Wallet presents Budget Your Money and Control Your Spending Using This Simple System.

Personal Finance Journeys (anedotes)

If you are a frugal grocery shopper, then you probably use coupons and take advantage of double or triple coupon offers. As you already know, the number of coupon or discount options for produce is very limited which means you are relying on weekly sales to save money on fruits and vegetables. Growing your own organic food is one way to alleviate some of your grocery costs when you can’t rely on coupons.

J. Money from Budgets Are Sexy presents Flashback: Getting scammed by a door-to-door salesman..

Personal Finance

Do you have young children? Try starting an organic garden in your backyard or in containers as a family project. You can educate your children on green living practices that help the environment while also teaching them about personal finance. Make the activity fun for your children and let them help out as much as possible!

Jim from Bargaineering presents How to Build Your Credit History with Tradelines.

FMF from Free Money Finance presents How to Keep Your Job.

Bob from ChristianPF presents Free budgeting software.

SD Guy from StretchyDollar presents 10 Phrases That Will Sink Your Budget.

Wojciech Kulicki from Fiscal Fizzle presents The Basics of Setting Financial Priorities.

Canadian Finance from The Canadian Finance Blog presents Costco Wholesale Executive Membership.

Miss M from M is for Money presents Girls – Would You Buy Your Own Engagement Ring?.

TStrump from The Strump – Financial Blog presents Getting Out of the Home Office.

Frugality (General)

One frugal option to help minimize expenses when growing an organic garden is to make your own compost. While making compost doesn’t offer quick results, overtime it can be a great way to ammend your garden soil while saving money. You can even use the fruit and vegetable scraps grown in your organic garden in your compost bin!

Madison from My Dollar Plan presents Super Couponing.

Nicki from Domestic Cents presents Releasing The Grasp Of Worry.

Debt & Credit

Purchasing organic fruits and vegetables at your local grocer is a nice option to have in place of produce that has been grown with the use of pesticides. Because of the additional costs involved with growing these products, a premium is charged to offest the costs. Instead of paying these premiums, why not start your own organic garden for a few of your favorite fruits and vegetables as a frugal alternative?

B Simple from Simplifed Financial Lifestyle presents Are you practicing safe credit card usage.

Be sure to check out next week’s Carnival of Pecuniary Delights which will be hosted by Counting My Pennies. Don’t forget to submit your best long standing articles for inclusion by using the submission guidelines page.

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Thanks again for stopping by and hope to see you back real soon!

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