Grow your own:

The Nutritower gives new meaning to farm-to-table. The vertical hydroponic home gardening system fits in the corner of a kitchen but is billed as a mess-free way of growing $700 a year worth of fresh herbs and veggies using only about $10 worth of electricity a month. It claims to offer mood-boosting fullspectrum light to boot. nutritower. com, $1,225 (on sale for $999) at the Ottawa Home & Garden Show.