After 3 years rebuilding our garden in Bulgaria from basically a overgrown wild jungle, now starting to reap the rewards. Best crop yet this year. Lots and lots and lots of hard work..... but every year it gets easier :)
But I'm just a beginner in Bulgarian village life and just about all the old people here have much more productive gardens than me. I can learn a lot from them. Its just a way of life and nothing special in the village. They were living the self-reliant/organic/homesteading life way, way before it became a thing, and still doing it now. That's what I love about living here.