Banana trees in your back yard.  Perfect!!

Growing your greens on your counter. Fresh!!

Growing up in Waimanalo, my father grew banana trees, coconut trees, & a lime tree.  We were the only house on the block that looked like a jungle. We also had various herbs around the kitchen sink. My mother used the leaves from the lime tree in her cooking, we ate the apple banana's when they were ripe, the coconut tree never gave fruit (not that I can remember) but it provided great shade. Where job corp is in Waimanalo, there was land that you could rent, my dad rented it out and grew tapioca other plants.  He would  pay me 5 bucks each week to pull weeds, while he and the other men (mostly filipinos) drank and talked stories.  

I didn't appreciate it back then, but my dad lived a sustainable life.  He never wasted food and grew most of what he wanted us to eat.  

"Thanks Dad"