When you live in the country you have to worry about pests like rabbits and raccoons that ruin your garden.  You have to assume you are going to lose X percent of your crops to these nuisances.  In the city we also have rodents, but they walk on two legs.

We lost about half (~10 ears) of our corn and a decent number of tomatoes.  It’s not that I didn’t expect there to be poachers, and its not like we don’t have tons of food from the garden, but it is a little disappointing to weed and water and watch a plant grow from a seed and see it fruiting and then finally after all of that go to enjoy the fruits of your labor (no pun intended) and find it missing.