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Backyard Harvest is now scheduling customer consultations for the fast-approaching 2009 growing season! Contact Krista Leraas at harvest@pricoldclimate.org to schedule yours today.
Backyard Harvest is a community-building program in urban permaculture. The program provides both garden fresh food and garden education for homeowners, renters and neighborhoods, as well as entrepreneurial and small scale food production training for our farmers. Our farmers contract with homeowners, renters and communities to create gardens in their backyards, maintain the gardens and harvest all of the produce weekly for each family.
The Backyard Harvest mission is the strengthen the Twin Cities local foods infrastructure one yard at a time by turning lawns into nourishing and healthy landscapes. We connect eaters directly to their food, neighbors to one another, and urban farmers to professional opportunities.
They offer three garden designs ranging from 80- to 120-square-feet with prices from $1025 to $1295. These bountiful packages include the following:
Backyard Harvest is a community-building program in urban permaculture. The program provides both garden fresh food and garden education for homeowners, renters and neighborhoods, as well as entrepreneurial and small scale food production training for our farmers. Our farmers contract with homeowners, renters and communities to create gardens in their backyards, maintain the gardens and harvest all of the produce weekly for each family.
The Backyard Harvest mission is the strengthen the Twin Cities local foods infrastructure one yard at a time by turning lawns into nourishing and healthy landscapes. We connect eaters directly to their food, neighbors to one another, and urban farmers to professional opportunities.
They offer three garden designs ranging from 80- to 120-square-feet with prices from $1025 to $1295. These bountiful packages include the following:
~ A comprehensive, professional garden design
~ Site assessment
~ Soil test*^
~ Compost/topsoil blend*^
~ Compost tea
~ Straw mulch
~ Plants & seeds
~ Watering system (w/ timer)^
~ 16 to 20 weeks of fresh vegetables
~ Packing/harvesting materials^
~ Garden installation
~ Personal urban farmer who will maintain the garden, harvest the vegetables & leave them at your back door
~ Garden journal with notes & communication from your farmer
~ E-newsletter from Backyard Harvest
~ Community events (e.g. celebrations, work shares, workshops)
*Negotiable and to be determined in a consultation
^One-time set-up cost. Back-to-back growing seasons patrons will have this cost waived.
Our pilot year focuses on the South Minneapolis area and on neighborhoods elsewhere within Mpls/St. Paul that have at least 5-10 yards for us to garden. We may not be able to accommodate all requests for backyard farming services.
For more information about the Backyard Harvest mission and goals, visit their website or view their online brochure.
Backyard Harvest is a project of the nonprofit Permaculture Research Institute - Cold Climate
~ Site assessment
~ Soil test*^
~ Compost/topsoil blend*^
~ Compost tea
~ Straw mulch
~ Plants & seeds
~ Watering system (w/ timer)^
~ 16 to 20 weeks of fresh vegetables
~ Packing/harvesting materials^
~ Garden installation
~ Personal urban farmer who will maintain the garden, harvest the vegetables & leave them at your back door
~ Garden journal with notes & communication from your farmer
~ E-newsletter from Backyard Harvest
~ Community events (e.g. celebrations, work shares, workshops)
*Negotiable and to be determined in a consultation
^One-time set-up cost. Back-to-back growing seasons patrons will have this cost waived.
Our pilot year focuses on the South Minneapolis area and on neighborhoods elsewhere within Mpls/St. Paul that have at least 5-10 yards for us to garden. We may not be able to accommodate all requests for backyard farming services.
For more information about the Backyard Harvest mission and goals, visit their website or view their online brochure.
Backyard Harvest is a project of the nonprofit Permaculture Research Institute - Cold Climate
Thanks to EcoParent Alex P. for the above info!
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