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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.
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 (cheese being essential to any good pizza) 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)
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 proliferated, until there are reputedly at least hundreds in the United States alone.
Meanwhile, this has also become a novelty style for organizing one's own garden.
External links
"Pizza farm"