Even though I continue to fight my way up the ladder at the company I work for, my dream is to do this and quit my job. I have between 1/2 - 3/4 acre which should be more than enough space for myself and my son. Unfortunately I'm a full time single parent and money and time aren't things I have much of. I will slowly begin transforming my yard this spring/summer. Everything I've researched shows that growing this way in raised beds on a small scale is much more efficient than the large farms producing our commercial food. I believe the government should be offering incentives to people, just like they have done with solar power, to promote this kind of thing to help improve our economy, not passing out fines to people who plant in their yard. And as a bonus I wouldn't need to spend time and money doing something I hate - mowing the lawn.
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