There are some things about first hand food that aren't so good. The false albacor is just not delicious, no matter what you do to it. We raised some of the woodiest green beans and soured a blackberry crop. A chantrels, black trumpets, are delicious. But here's the thing that isn't, that's not superdelicious about first-hand food. It has an inherent problem. You have none at all until the very moment that you have much too much. And that's sort of the nature of seasonality.
What did author and Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel learn from her quest to eat at least one thing she'd grown, caught, or killed every day? For starters, that just-caught fish always tastes better (unless you've caught a false albacore). That all it takes to build a coop is the will and the right power tools, and that when it comes to homegrown produce, you've got none until you've got way too much. But most of all, she tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts in talking about her book To Boldly Grow, she learned that figuring stuff out to solve problems is more delicious than the most decadent of desserts.