Gardening is in my blood. The year I don't have a garden is the year I will die.
I believe that gardening and cooking go hand in hand.
I don't have the large pieces of property I have had in the past but I do have enough to grow a hundred or so different tomato varieties. I also grow several different types of peppers, horseradish, rhubarb, lettuce, spinach, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, beans, peas, carrots, thyme, rosemary, dill, mint, basil,cilantro, cucumbers,melons, strawberries and have grape and raspberry vines that are a few years old. I am seriously thinking of getting a dwarf orchard.
I can up probably close to 50 quarts of tomatoes and homemade sauce every fall. I make probly 30 pints of homemade salsa. A few years back I was given a pressure canner for a present and have been able to can fruits during the appropriate seasons. I haven't tried to can meats, soups or gravies yet. It works well for beans and carrots too. I want to do more research on canning meat products before I attempt it.

We also grow a wide variety of flowers.

CanMan gave us a great link to a canning site I will try and find it for you and pull it up. Canning is fabulous, and I for one prefer home-canned veggies over frozen!

Home canned vegetables really are much better than the cans at the store. My grandmother used to can all sorts of fruits and veggies. I loved them all. I make some jellies and pickles for canning and mostly freeze my veggies though. I would love to be able to do all that canning but it's hours of work to do it the way she did and I just don't have that much time.

Around here feed for animals has gone up dramatically. My FIL had tossed around the idea of growing beef or raising some piggies but feed is to expensive. People are practically giving away horses because they cannot afford hay and feed. He buys feed for the grandkids three horses and he says it just keeps getting higher. Luckily a fried of theirs raises hay and cuts them a pretty good deal when his comes in but that is only a couple times a year.