Living off the land..in Brooklyn NY.

Howard figured his farm could provide him enough food for amonth late in the summer and began preparing in March. He builta chicken coop, dug a drainage system to water his crops, spentthousands of dollars on topsoil to cover his yard’s lead-rich,nutrient-poor clay and bought rabbits, ducks and 25 chicks.

He soon learned it was hard work — seven days a week, sixto 16 hours a day, tending his farm nearly every day until theexperiment of eating his food began in mid-August.

When I grew up in Brooklyn you would be amazed how many families, esp. the Italian ones, had intensive gardens on tiny plots of backyard. Tomatoes were the big grower although I recall seing guys growing corn on the edges of parking lots. And tehres always stories of people raising chickens in apartments in the poorer neighborhoods.