No problem, but what % of tomatoes consumed in the USA are home grown? I would say less then 1% but I do not know this for sure. In cities where all the people are, the % of home grown veggies is much less then in the countryside where the people are not. The number of people growing a garden in Amsterdam is less then 1% for sure, virtually everyone that I share my homegrown heirloom tomatoes with can't believe how good they are, they all said they have never ever had a tomato so good, but they do not want to grow them, maybe just a few did take tomato starts from my wife and grow them. Most just wanted more tomatoes or sweet corn that I grew, from us. No one has ever grown any of the sweet corn seeds I imported from the USA except for one employee that wanted them at home, tomatoes and corn.
People all left the farms, mostly they do not want to go back, they like shopping at the store, so convenient year round.
I like to feel the soil in my fingers, I like gardening, my wife likes to freeze all the extra tomatoes and make tomato sauce for pasta. It lasts a year easy in a deep freeze ziplock frozen away.
In the countryside in Santa Cruz I had a small 2 acre farm that produced 47 kinds of fruit and veggies for home use. At one point we hardly bought fresh food, I don't do that anymore but if I had the land somewhere I could, I would. The weather there was a lot better then here. Thats why I use a greenhouse here for corn and tomatoes.
-SamS
It's interesting that Europeans have never really seen corn as people food but rather as food for domestic animals. My family's church sponsored a Belgian foreign exchange student long ago who was quite surprised that we ate the stuff. He ended up rather pleased with it, as well.
Cultural food preferences are pretty remarkable, with some eagerly devouring what others find revolting. Filipino balut is a prime example of that.