urban farming i general is kind of a challenge.

you have a lot of neighbors who aren't farmers.

And they may not think tha getting up at the crack of dawn and running a tractor b their houses is a great thing.

these days in our country, so few people farm or have any background in it anymore that they are unaware of what that really means.

my family's put a lot of years and a lot of effort into maintaining this farm.

And now it's really the only farm of any size left within the city.

my grandparents started in business in 1905. but we've been on this farm since 1916.

So a while We grow Usually around a thousan different varieties of irises.

all kinds of colors and also sizes.

So from little tiny miniatur dwarf iris only about six inches tall, up to one that are like three feet tall.

irises are really wel suited to our semi-arid climate.

They're drought tolerant And you'll see them growing sometimes, like popping out of medians, you know, through the asphalt and everything.

And they're incredibly tough and hardy.

it's been interesting to watch it get so developed and so congested.

people would build houses with second floor decks and balconies and things.

And as our land kind of go surrounded, I've began to feel a little bit like I was in a fishbowl.

I'm proud of the fact that, we managed to hang in ther and that we hung in long enough for people to sort of realize that it makes sense to have a farm in the city people will come and say, oh, I just love being here because I feel really calm like sort of slow down being in a natural setting, has a tendency to make people just get into the rhythm of what's going on, And so you think you're doing somethin that's good just by being here.

proud of that.