It’s not very often that you find an entire front yard in the city of Los Angeles dedicated to a garden, complete with stalks of corn. But that’s what you’ll find in the yard of actor Eddie Albert, the veteran of some 110 movies and thousands of television shows. He has a passion for farming. That passion started long before he played the city slicker turned farmer in the 1960’s sitcom "Green Acres."

Albert grew up farming in Minnesota. "We had a potato farm and we used to follow the horses as they were plowing," Albert said.

Today the 91-year-old Albert relishes showing visitors his lush gardens. The warm and funny actor and his late wife, Margo, planted their front and backyard gardens almost the minute they moved into their Pacific Palisades home nearly 50 years ago.

"When I put corn in the front yard there was a lot of talk about it among the neighbors. What’s really strange to me are people who don’t have gardens," Albert said.

Albert, the humanitarian, helped establish gardens for inner-city children in the 1970’s. He’s traveled the world, trying to raise the level of awareness of environmental and agricultural issues.

Still, when you say the name, "Eddie Albert," you think of the television farmer. Albert said he loved doing the show and has great respect for fellow cast members like the late Eva Gabor.

"It was a pity to take the money," Albert joked. He didn’t even mind sharing billing with a pig, the infamous Arnold the pig.

Albert uses all of the food from his garden in his own meals and we enjoyed a lunch that included vegetables that he laughingly said "are ten minutes old!"

If you want to contact Eddie you can log on to his website at www.eddiealbert.com.