The New York Times Agrees

A recent New York Times article about growing fruit trees in your back yard struck a chord with us.
Says the NY Times: "The backyard orchard makes sense, given the growing popularity of the local-food movement. Nothing is more local than the backyard, after all, and home orcharding, as the practice is sometimes called, guarantees freshness and cuts the energy costs for transportation to nil. Anxieties about food safety — sparked by events like last year’s E. coli outbreak in spinach — may also be contributing to the trend."
Our thoughts exactly.