Hello Hive account@laviesm,
Your dream of living in a simple way is a great one.
My thoughts on what you have are similar to Macchiata - you are lucky to be able to pick fresh fruit from trees in your backyard. I grew up doing the same. I had a wide variety of fruit trees that would be laden with fruit and it was something I admired my mum for taking pride in purchasing the highest farm quality and nurturing them in her garden. I had some of the biggest avocados with a sweet flavour, almonds, mangoes, bananas, naseberry (chica in Visayan), lots of othaheite apples (don't remember the Visayan name), limes, guavas, starfruit, Jamaican cherries (Muntingia calabura), sweetsop (Atis), and sugarcane. For my lunches, I climbed trees and picked fruit to eat, and it's something I wish I could do today.
Never give up on that dream of yours, especially since you do like gardening and growing your own produce.
Thanks for sharing this with us:)