Unlike store produce, backyard vegetables and fruits are picked at their peak ripeness. The longest distance they have to travel is measured in feet to the kitchen, not miles across the country. This means that they taste better than anything you can buy. Anyone who has plucked a ripe, sun-warmed tomato or crisp sugar snap pea and promptly eaten it while standing in the garden knows what taste really is. The freshest vegetables are also the most nutritious.
Homegrown food is the safest.
These days everyone is alert to the various issues in the production of food. While enormous strides have been made in regulating and minimizing the use of pesticide products in domestic food production, there is still concern about residues on store bought produce. Unlike commercially grown vegetables that are raised in a monoculture, backyard vegetables benefit from the presence of a diversity of plants on the property which host beneficial insects. Homegrown food is convenient. These days this is no small issue.