Emilio Estevez with his chickens

I was watching the Charlie Rose show on PBS today with actor father and son Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez and I learned that Emilio has a vineyard on one acre in his backyard in Malibu, CA.  He just started tearing up their lawn and started planting.  He also has chickens, bees, a worm farm, and a large vegetable gardens.  How cool is that?  I love that he is only using 1 acre. 

I found a few articles with pics of his place I thought I'd share.  Bon Appetit did a story on his farm.  It says an acre, in theory, is capable of producing 30 to 40 thousand dollars' worth of food.  Looks like I need to make more use out of our yard if that's true!

Emilio Estevez's backyard veggie garden and vineyard

Emilio Estevez in his hothouse