Sufficient Sufficiency?

I think it’s ok to grow more than you need as long as you’ve thought about what to do with the excess, for the rainy day.

Clamping, drying, freezing, pickles, jams, ferments are some of my options. Having enough jars, tubs, freezer and shelf space, And cardboard boxes for when the gluts arrive though takes a lot of planning time and effort, and Mother Nature is very unpredictable with what gluts she gives you.

Giving it away to be honest is the easy option and I do a fair bit of that, being prepared is a lot harder.

The main things I grow too much of (besides courgettes) is cabbages but the state they sometimes end up in, not many people would want them. They tend to have populations of slugs and caterpillars. I once gave my mother-in-law what I considered a perfectly good cauliflower but I was informed it had to be binned because it was crawling with caterpillars, it was the last she got.
People have been so conditioned to expect veg to be perfectly clean and, after a quick rinse to be ready to cook, though they are likely loaded with unseen chemicals.