One of the joys of owning your own home with a yard is having the opportunity to have a garden. Many fresh vegetables are easy to grow, and even a very small garden area can be a family project and will provide entertainment as well as nourishment, and if your children are involved, it will help them understand where their food comes from.
My wife and I have had a small home garden since our first year of marriage, and it has been a wonderful thing to work on together and share over the years. In fact, when our daughter first went off to college 700 miles from home, she told us during Parents' Weekend that one of the things she missed the most was the homegrown vegetables, and she plans to have a garden in her yard, when the time comes to buy her first house. It was heart warming to hear it, and even as we are no longer in our 20's, and sometimes the spring work of turning the beds and planting the seeds takes a bit longer than it used to, we will always look forward to having a garden in one form or another.
If you should decide to purchase a condominium or a house with a very small yard, container gardening is a quick, inexpensive, and easy way to grow tomatoes and cucumbers on a trellis in large pots. No garden is too small to enjoy.