Hello, and welcome to City Farm Project.  My name is Matt, and I will be one of your guides.  I live in the city of Linton, Indiana.  Linton is a small community in south-west Indiana with around 6,000 residents.  Amazingly for having so few residents Linton has over a dozen restaurants.  Many of which are fast food, and I have to admit that I probably come close to eating at all of them in a months time.  I figured there has to be a better way to eat.  I love food and like to cook although I don’t do it as much as I should.  Problem with the food today is whether someone buys groceries or eats in a restaurant most people do not know where their food comes from.  That is about to change. Together with friends I am going to grow a farm.  So you may ask what my experience on growing vegetables is.  Next to nothing.  Really. During the winter of 2005-06 I decided to try my hand at growing some of my own food.  So in the spring I planted about a dozen tomato’s (red, yellow, and Roma), some herbs (rosemary, basil, and mint).  Also, some sugar baby watermelons.  Well the next day my sugar baby plant was missing.  I think my dog ate it.  That should tell you right there my luck with gardens.  I think all season long I might have had a dozen or two tomato’s.  All Roma’s.  Those are a pain in the ass slicing up for a hamburger lemme tell you.  I had some mint.  Not much rosemary.  Even less basil.  And no sugar baby watermelons, damn dog.  Fast forward to winter 2006-07.  I figure I will just put out some tomatos in front of the house in my planter thinking it will get more sun than my spot last year being hidden by a house and a tree.  Here comes July and no tomato’s.  Probably because I haven’t planted any yet.  I finally get around to planting two.  One tomato on each plant with neither being larger than a golf ball.  Fast forward to winter 2007-08.  Talking with my friend Derrick I mentioned how I would love to plant a garden with the works, but I only have a front yard and I didn’t want to go it alone.  He mentioned that he has a second lot next door that he planted a little garden in, but would love a big garden.  A few weeks down the road I read an article where a family grew most of their food on a city lot not much bigger that my friends.  I mention it to him and he agreed that we should grow a garden.  Only not just a garden, but a farm.  We will have everything.  Corn, carrots, tomato’s, and potato’s.  Beans, peas, watermelons and much more.  Maybe we can even grow some peace of mind with our self sufficiency.  Stay tuned for our escapades at the City Farm Project.