Nearly 40% of Estonian Households Grow or Gather Their Own Food
According to Statistics Estonia, about 39% of households consume self-grown or self-collected food, with berries and apples being the most common.
Almost two in five Estonian households eat food that they have grown or gathered themselves, according to the latest household budget survey by Statistics Estonia.
The most commonly home-produced items are garden berries and apples, consumed by more than a quarter of households. On average, a household consumes 82 kilograms of self-grown potatoes and 50 kilograms of apples per year. Among wild foods, mushrooms are the most popular, with an average of nine kilograms gathered annually.
Gardening and foraging are most widespread in Central Estonia, where 57% of households engage in them, while in Northeastern Estonia only about one in four does so. Self-grown and gathered foods are most common in the diets of large families and pensioners.
