Adventures In Avant Garde-ning

I grew up in a rural area on a single acre of property.  My family was not exactly poor, but we did have to watch our money carefully.  One of the ways we managed to be frugal was by cultivating a large garden (about 8000 square feet) that the whole family worked to tend:  weeding, tilling, planting, harvesting, watering, etc.  We had so much food out of that garden that harvesting days were a whole family affair.