i like to garden.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use. Gardening is considered by many people to be a relaxing activity. Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential yards including lawns and foundation plantings, to plants in large or small containers grown inside or outside. Gardening may be very specialized, with only one type of plant grown, or involve a large number of different plants in mixed plantings. It involves an active participation in the growing of plants, and tends to be labor-intensive, which differentiates it from farming or forestry. Forest gardening, a forest-based food production system, is the world's oldest form of gardening. Forest gardens originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad river banks and in the wet foothills of monsoon regions. In the gradual process of families improving their immediate environment, useful tree and vine species were identified, protected and improved while undesirable species were eliminated.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "We have a pretty large garden, with all sorts of vegetables in it."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh wow, that must be so tasty. What all do y'all grow?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "We've grown egg plants, carrots, onions, potatoes, and several other varieties.  Recently we branched out and started experimenting with forest gardening."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That sounds like fun. What all does forest gardening entail?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It involves raising trees and vines that provide food or other uses."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That sounds like something that I could enjoy immensely. Do you mind telling me what state that you live in?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I live in the Midwest, so we aren't able to do much with citrus trees."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I also live in the Midwest, Missouri to be exact. I have always wanted to grow a southern live oak, but we cannot in this region."}]