The easiest ways to start a garden and save on your food budget

Each week the NZ Herald and Newstalk ZB's Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's reducing one of your core expenses by starting a garden. Hosted by Frances Cook.<br /><br />When it comes to cutting down your budget, the biggest bang for your buck comes from three core areas: housing, transport, and food. <br /><br />This is where stats show we spend the most of our money, and so it’s where we have the biggest potential for savings. <br /><br />So starting a garden is a great way to become more self-reliant, and reduce your food budget. <br /><br />But it’s not easy, with many of us living in urban areas now, or just having the proverbial black thumbs. <br /><br />Don’t sweat it – everyone has to start somewhere.<br /><br />For the latest Cooking the Books podcast I talked to Elien Lewis from Homegrown Happiness. <br /><br />We discussed how she got started gardening on a small urban section, the easiest and cheapest gardening methods, and what to do if you're a renter. <br /><br />If you have a question you'd like answered in a future podcast, come and talk to me about it. I'm on Facebook here <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/</a> Instagram here <a href="https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/</a> and Twitter here <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesCook" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/FrancesCook</a>