Which crops kept your family fed best? What felt like you had tons of it, it was easy to store and prepare, and you didn’t have to worry about having enough of it to last until next season?

I’m in the thick of my first season as a homesteader, and I’d like to hear from more experienced homesteaders what crops were worth your focus and energy. We planted a little of everything, leaning heavily into tomatoes, beans and potatoes so as to have a few staple things we can focus on and reasonably expect a good harvest from. I went hard on the garden, but I also acknowledged that this year is the year that now finally having the space, we are figuring out how much we actually need to grow, how much we actually eat, what we actually make the most of, and what we are good at. Tell me what crop your family has the easiest time getting your bang for your buck on the dinner table from.

A picture of our potatoes for tax, we are trying both in ground trench potatoes and some container potatoes to see what works best for us. So far both are happily exploding.