10 Simple, Cheap Home Gardening Innovations to Set You on the Path to Food IndependenceAlex Pietrowski Thanks to the Internet, the availability of parts and materials, and good old-fashioned ingenuity, there is a wide range of in-home, and in-apartment, gardening systems that are easy to construct and maintain, and that can provide nutritious, organic, and low-cost food for you and your family. Once you realize jut how rewarding home gardening can be, it is tremendously fun to experiment with different systems and ideas for best producing your favorite healthy, fresh fruits and veggies. Since everyones gardening space, interests and budgets differ, here are 10 simple ideas and how tos for getting a small, affordable, and easy to construct gardening system up and running in your home. Aquaponics Read: Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together Vertical Gardening The easy and affordable example below can be adapted for many different fruits and veggies, or scaled for larger purposes Simple Greenhouse Designs Read: Greenhouse Gardeners Companion, Revised: Growing Food Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace Easy to build hoop house greenhouse how-to Cold Frames for Winter Gardening Read: Backyard Winter Gardening: Vegetables Fresh and Simple, In Any Climate without Artificial Heat or Electricity the Way Its Been Done for 2,000 Years Simple winter cold frame garden Read: Let it Rot!: The Gardeners Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storeys Down-To-Earth Guides) 3-bin compost system using free pallets Ideas for Apartment Gardening Living in an apartment can mean you have to be more creative and imaginative with the space you have. Here are some resources and ideas for finding and setting up your apartment garden. Read: Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects, and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home Here are some useful tips on finding space for your apartment garden We hope that you find the inspiration to find out for yourself just how easy, fun, and liberating home gardening can be as further stress on our collective food systems continues to drive up prices and drive down nutrition. Gardening is both addictive and contagious, so be prepared to have fun, grow some tasty food, and meet some new friends once your neighbors hear about your success. Alex Pietrowski is an artist and writer concerned with preserving good health and the basic freedom to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com, where this first appeared,and an avid student of Yoga and life. 