Urban farmer grows crops right in backyard

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - He doesn't own a combine or even a more than an acre, but Kevin Levesque has crops.

"This is our little backyard farm, I gotta keep enough room for the kids and the puppy dogs, “ Levesque said.

From his house right here in Terre Haute, Levesque grows enough produce to cut right into the family's grocery bills. He calls himself an "Urban Homesteader." The term goes back to a simpler time, when families grew all their own food. Levesque family just wanted a break from the rising cost.

"I decided I wanted to grow my own food because I was tired of paying the high prices at the grocery store,” added Levesque.

The backyard farm may not look like much now, but its planting season. In the summer time, he'll have large crops. Levesque grows corn, peppers, and lots of tomatoes. The fruits and vegetable, of their labor last long past the growing season.

"We ate corn half way through the winter and.....it was wonderful," Levesque said.

This season Levesque found another way to help the family cut cost.

His family won't be spending any money on eggs this year. They welcomed ten chickens into their urban homestead. They'll only use the chickens for their eggs.. But they add to Levesque’s long term goal, self-sufficiency.

"You can grow enough food for two people in just a 4 by 8 square,” insists Levesque.

Even in this modern era, sometimes the best answer to the rising prices of food, means returning to a simpler time.
 

For more information on urban farming with the Levesques, check out their Facebook page .