Vegan

Plants are not so hard to grow, so don't be intimidated!! Growing them well is a different story, but practice makes perfect and gardening is a fun hobby.

I'd look into what is grown locally and start there, but personally I grow my own tomatoes, hot peppers, eggplants, zucchini and a smattering of herbs. Peppers and herbs are easy to pot, so you can move them indoors over the winter, tomatoes I haven't had as much luck with, but we have phenomenal soil for tomatoes here so my tomato plants become absolutely massive and growing them in pots would be cumbersome.

Keeping critters away is a challenge, but I found hanging CDs helps with birds and spraying wolf urine around the garden helps with the deer and squirrels. The squirrels are just hungry bastards, though, and I always lose some tomatoes and zucchini to them, but I make more than I can use so it's largely fine.

If you do end up doing tomatoes and zucchini, tips for both during harvest season. Learn a good sauce recipe and get big jars in advance. Make gallons of it. Zucchini are most flavorful when they're smaller, so pick them when they're smaller, but if one stays hidden for too long and ends up as big as your forearm, turn it into bread.

If you keep compost, it's great to mix into your soil at the start of the season and rotate what is planted where to get better results each year.