Do you like the idea of growing your own fruits and vegetables, but find the execution overwhelming? You are not alone! While starting an edible garden can feel daunting, there are so many benefits to growing your own healthy fruits and vegetables, from a better flavour to attracting nutrient-spreading pollinators to your yard.
Keep reading to learn why 2026 could be your year for starting your own harvest, and how you can elevate the experience with Kind Bee Farms.
Nutrition
Fun fact: fruits and vegetables lose a certain amount of nutrients every hour after they are picked. So, if you are exclusively buying your produce from the grocery store, it has lost several days’ worth of nutrients by the time you’ve added it to your shopping cart.
Growing your own produce takes your vegetables and fruit from garden to table much quicker. During the growing season, you can pick your food straight out of your plot and eat it that same day!
This allows you to benefit from a higher dose of minerals, vitamins, fibre, and other nutrients, keeping your body and brain healthy!
Better Taste
The sentiment of “homemade is better” takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to homegrown produce. Fruits and vegetables that you buy from grocery stores are grown as hybrids to extend their shelf life, but this usually reduces their good flavour.
Store-bought produce is also harvested before peak ripeness and ripened artificially during transportation. Because they did not begin to ripen naturally on their tree, bush, or vine, the flavour profile is significantly reduced.
Growing your own produce allows you to enjoy fruits and vegetables during their natural shelf life, allowing them to pull all that flavour from their plant and your nutrient-dense soil. The result is a much more delicious first bite!
Year-Round Harvests
If you live in a warmer climate or have an insulated greenhouse, you can save money and enjoy high-quality produce year-round!
Greenhouses protect your plants from harsh weather conditions, and with the right heating system, you can grow tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and other essential produce twelve months out of the year.
Even if your greenhouse is only used in spring and summer, this is still a great way to control your garden environment, mitigate pests and weed growth, and bring home a larger, more bountiful harvest. You can also introduce pollinators in a more structured way.
Greenhouse pollination can be tricky, as bees, birds, butterflies and other pollinators have to get past the barriers of your door and four walls. However, you can install a leafcutter bee pollinator house in your greenhouse, giving your kind bees easy access to your vegetable garden!
Lower Grocery Bills
Gardening is a great way to save money on fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the year. While you cannot grow everything you might need, you can cover many of your basic needs, including lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash (our kind bees love squash flowers), carrots, potatoes, and much more. This can help you save big on surging grocery prices.
You can also save money by canning and freezing your produce. With a water bath or pressure canner, you can make fruit-in-syrup, pickles, jams, canned tomato sauce, and other preserves. Freezing is great for chopped vegetables and fruit, or for making medleys for quick and simple meals.
These preserving methods are great for climates that don’t accommodate year-round harvests and can help you save money on shelf-stable items you would normally buy in-store.
Improved Pollination on Your Property
Pollinators are crucial to the health and vitality of many plants, including the food we grow and eat. Growing your own fruits and vegetables can help attract more pollinators to your property, benefiting the growth of your garden and the surrounding ecosystem.
Leafcutter bees are excellent pollinators to add to your garden. Known as “superpollinators,” these bees work 20 times faster than honeybees, and their gentle nature makes them excellent gardening partners.
Leafcutters are solitary bees who nest independently, so you barely have to do any upkeep; simply install their bee house, release the bees, and watch them go to work!
Once the growth season ends, the winterization process is also very straightforward (which you can read more about in this blog).
If you want to enhance the pollination in your garden next year, introducing leafcutter bees is a great way to take your produce from seed to bloom to delicious!
Grow Your Fruit + Vegetable Garden with Kind Bee Farms
If you want to start growing your own food, enhance your pollination and see substantial growth with Kind Bee Farms! Our Bee Pollinator Kit includes a box of over 200 bees, bee nesting tubes, and their own acacia wood pollinator house.
Visit our Shop to place a pre-order, and check out our blog for more fun facts about leafcutter bees!