Growing your own food

In the last 5 years we have grownn most of all of our vegies.  We have saved on an advarage about $900.00 a year by doing this. The plus to this other than the saving of money is that we know what is in our food or to say what is not in our food pest, chemicals and so on.
We can and jar our food that we grow and it last us all the way up untill the nest harvest.
We are in the South Georgia area so we are lucky we have a long growing season last year we did two plantings of our greens.  Now it is that we can not plant everything we would like because of space issues but we have this great litttle farmers market called Farmer Browns were all the local farmers bring there harvests to sell.  The prices are very resonable and this way we are supporting our local farmer.
I would love to here how you grow your own food and how much money it has saved you over a years time.
The best thing is we are showing our grandchildren how great and gradifing it is to grow and eat your own work truly the fruits of your labor,
We are now thinking of doing honey bees do any of you out there have any suggestions on this new indevor we are thing of embarking on,  We look forward to hearing from you with many thanks