Both are good options. We would grow or raise about 80% of our own food but this year we are scaling back a bit so I can work on this community. We can scale up food production at anytime if we need to. Welcome to the community! Glad you are here

We used Styrofoam containers as growing containers. They worked great, the didn't break down in the sun and they also did not heat up or growing media on our rooftop. The surface temperatures could climb to 110 deg F or 43 deg C. If we used dark colored pots it would cook the roots

@Michal Hnaťuk Yes, Styrofoam works great. From the research that I have foun,d they do not leach chemicals into the soil. The best part was that we got ours for free. It is easy to put small drainage holes in the bottom. The biggest drawback is that they break easily. But if you can find them for free or cheap, you can replace them. We got our containers from a seafood market. You can also check with meat distributors, and some pharmaceuticals are shipped in them.

we have produced most of out own food in the past. The labor and time requirement can be very high. We have recently scaled back knowing that we can restart our systems at any time. But what we scaled back to most people would consider a lot.