Grocery Bills Soar as Retail Food Prices Spiral Up

Eating is getting expensive.

Until just a few years ago the cost of food, adjusted for inflation, was on a decades long decline. $100+/gallon oil and the increased demand for soy caused by a boom in biofuel have been major factors driving the retail cost of food through the roof- egg prices up 40%, milk 26%. Food commodities have soared even more- per bushel corn prices have doubled since 2006, wheat prices have jumped almost 300% in the same time. Food manufacturers are starting to pass on the price difference between their costs and the retail mark and it’s only going to get worse.

This is a timely place to throw out a link to one of my favorite green blogs Groovy Green and a video (long, but chock full o’ goodness) on how much food you can get from a suburban yard sized garden.

Victory Gardens FTW! Don’t take the rising food prices like a little bitch. Strike back with your own locally grown food.

Link [Boston.com]
Photo credit: Flickr user athomson

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