The time investment is probably around 20 minutes a day, and then now and again an hour when putting seeds into soil and / or transplanting seedlings to bigger containers. It is not really a cost saving but the taste is better when you know that everything has been grown organically... and of course as fresh as you can get. I am not sure why @haphzrd-homestead stopped blogging but when I checked just now I see he last posted 2 years ago