Cool! I live in San Deigo, California. We just got a dehydrator after not having one for a couple years. We like to use the leftover un-carved pumpkins from halloween to make pumpkin leathers with it. We just got a persimmon tree to replace the pear that we have had for a couple years and has always flowered but never produced. We also have a olive, purple fig, lemon, lime, apple, avocado, three pecans, and now that persimmon tree as well as a bunch of raised garden beds that mostly grow various produce.
But gardens and preserving are big at my farm, canning, dehydrating, etc. Chickens & goats here now (meat & dairy types) and pigs from time to time.
Wow! I'm a tiny bit jealous of all the varieties of trees you can grow! We have done fairly well with some citrus, but after a couple of years of crazy cold spells I've lost my two Meyer lemons and persimmon tree. My mulberry and fig trees have survived though, Guess I'll concentrate on those. I think if I try citrus again, I'll stick with varieties that could do well in a pot that I can bring in during hard freezes.
