It's awesome that other people in your neighbourhood like to grow their own food as well. I've been talking to the neighbour about what he's planted, so I don't plant the same, and we can share. For example, he grows apricots, so no point in me growing one. Of course that depends on him wanting to swap produce, but he seems pretty keen.
I'm with yhou on the pesticides. I think it's worse in Europe, but still. I'd rather know where my food is coming from. Furthermore, I think it's important for resilience as well - when the supermarkets had no eggs or lettuce, I had heaps.
In the last year, many people have returned to gardening
Some for economic reasons, some because of the scandals I mentioned, that it is safest to have your own.
Yes, I regularly exchange food with my uncle.
Although we often sow the same vegetables, we do not live in the same location, the difference is only 5 km, but I am next to the Danube, and he is next to the loess plain. So it regularly happens that the same plant thrives at my place or at his place,