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I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu.