City Farmer. Lorraine Johnson

him with food, an August tornado flattened his crops and splintered the roof of his chicken coop. His rabbits failed to reproduce like rabbits, and after taking them to a stud farm to do the deed, the mother rabbit killed all her baby bunnies. By the end of the summer, his garden had managed to feed him for only three weeks—a string of meals he characterized as monotonous. He’d spent $11,000 and lost 29 pounds.