Mike Riggs and his wife dreamed of returning to the land. It wasn’t as easy as it looks on Tik-Tok:

How many square feet of raised beds do you need to meet a toddler’s strawberry demand? I still don’t know. We dedicated 80 square feet to strawberries last season. The bugs ate half our harvest, and the other half equaled roughly what our kid could eat in a week.

Have you ever grown peas? Give them something to climb, and they’ll stretch to the heavens. Have you ever shelled peas? It is an almost criminal misuse of time. I set a timer on my phone last year. It took me 13 minutes to shell a single serving. Meanwhile, a two-pound bag of frozen peas from Walmart costs $2.42. And the peas come shelled.

…In addition to possums and deer, we’ve faced unrelenting assaults from across the eukaryotic kingdoms: the tomato

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