Why do we want to spend our precious time turning our backyard into an mini farm?  The simple answer is this: we don’t want to buy fruit that was picked 3 weeks ago in a country thousands of miles away.  Merging the food chain and the supply chain is great for the global economy and makes sense for processed or frozen foods with a long shelf life…however everyone knows that with fruits and veggies fresh is best.  

We want to eat seasonally: peaches off the tree in June, pears in August, apples in September, and persimmons in November.  We want fresh non-GMO sweet corn.  We don’t want to pay $2 for a small bunch of organic cilantro.  We don’t want tomatoes that taste like chalk and were ripened with ethylene gas.  And most of all, we want to figure out how to grow all this in a suburban North Texas backyard when everyone else has a boring lawn.