Gardening is not too big a deal, but it can be very frustrating to do everything right and have something take one bite out of every fruit. Wildlife can be very wasteful. Deer will strip your young fruit trees down to tiny stumps during the winter and will take one bite from each dangling apple or peach as they ripen. Rabbits, tortoises, birds, etc. will sample your vegetable garden daily, also just taking a nibble or two from the just ripe fruit. Raccoons and deer will give you a run for the corn. And we won't even get into the bugs, which can be a problem even in town.