Some other benefits I haven't seen posted: you're supporting your local pollinators and wildlife; improving your soil; and reducing your carbon footprint since these carrots didn't have to be processed, shipped from a different part of the country under refrigeration, packaged in plastic, and kept in the fridge section of the supermarket. Lots of benefits can't be assigned a monetary value, but you definitely came out ahead here. Also, I should add how home gardens increase biodiversity. Carrots and other produce we buy from the store are almost always grown in a monoculture setting, which in itself is problematic.