"Vegetable gardening" refers to the act of growing and cultivating plants that produce vegetables, such as tomatoes, carrots, and lettuce, in a garden or outdoor space. Full definition
There were small vegetable gardens in some places, and every so often I saw chile peppers being grown. (fieryfoodscentral.com)
I started this process when I got into gardening and had a nice little organic vegetable garden for my family. (thedrakecenter.com)
However regarding the longer term resource scarcity issue, we have access to all the old knowledge on planting vegetable gardens and the like, and would avoid extinction. (realclimate.org)