Why, people sometimes ask me, do you grow your own food? Why go to all the trouble of tilling, planting, and weeding a piece of your valuable backyard for vegetables? Aren’t all those fruit trees and berry bushes a lot of work?
I usually answer with a few questions of my own. When was the last time you bit into a really delicious peach or sat down to a steaming plate of fresh asparagus? Tender tips, just ripe, not the stringy kind you generally find in the supermarket? Fresh, sweet corn just picked or raspberries plump enough to make cold cereal a gourmet dish?
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