Pizza farm

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A pizza farm or pizza garden is a circular region of land partitioned into pie-shaped wedges, each dedicated to the production of a separate ingredient necessary or useful for making pizza.

This has grown into a significantly expanding cottage industry in the United States, more as a tourist and specialty niche than as a serious supplier of pizza ingredients to the food industry at large.

[edit] Common ingredients

Among the typical segments of a pizza farm might include:

wheat (to represent the crust)
tomatoes (sauce)
Italian herbs, especially including oregano and basil
onions
garlic
olives (for toppings and ever-important olive oil)
Cattle, for dairy products and beef
Pigs for pork (which is especially popular on smaller pizza farms, where beef cattle may require too much space)
Chili peppers
Chicken (eggs)

[edit] History

The self-proclaimed first pizza farm was started in 1993, by Darren Schmall in Madera, California. From there both independent pizza farms and franchise clones of his own farm have proliferated to number in the hundreds in the United States alone.

Meanwhile, this has also become a novelty style for organizing one's own garden.