The Los Angeles-based farmer tells us how he uses the local climate and his home environment to keep his crops growing all year round.

Urban farmer Ken Sparks has turned his terraced backyard in East L.A. into a food forest, and his hobby into a career as an edible gardening consultant.

Ken Sparks took pandemic gardening to new heights.

Ken Sparks turned hardscape East L.A. yard into a farm with chickens, butterflies, arrays of vegetables and fruit trees.

What was once a hillside backyard filled with concrete and cement is now a blossoming 'food forest' filled with over 70 plants and fruit trees, many of which are edible.