Editor's home-grown experiment cuts grocery bill to $10

New Zealand Gardener magazine editor Lynda Hallinan. Photo / Herald on Sunday

Making a New Year's resolution to be self-sufficient has paid off for gardening guru Lynda Hallinan.

The editor of New Zealand Gardener magazine is closing in on a year of eating homegrown fruit and vegetables.

In the process, she is slashed her spending on groceries.

Now she wants the rest of us to make the effort, and start growing our own fruit and vegetables.

Ms Hallinan decided last Christmas that if she could not grow everything in her back yard she had no right to tell others to do it.

She says she managed to cut her grocery bill to ten dollars a week using her garden, and is encouraging New Zealanders to do the same.

The secret of how she did it can be found at New Zealand Gardener magazine.

- NEWSTALK ZB