Neighbor, May I Borrow Your Vegetable Garden?
In a perfect green world, we’d all have the time, space, and skills to maintain a vegetable garden, a satisfying and sustainable way to get your produce. I always thought I didn’t have a big enough yard for a vegetable garden, but at least I have one. What about people living in urban areas or those in apartments or townhouses? When there’s no dirt to dig in, where do you turn?
Many towns and cities across the country now have community gardens (Penn State’s Sustainable Agriculture Club started one this year on campus)–space set aside for individuals to sow and grow their own mini-bounty. But due to space constraints, getting a spot in a community garden can be difficult. If you didn’t make the cut, what are your options? Yardsharing!
The term “yardsharing” is another new word in our venacular. Liz McLellan of Hyperlocavore, a pioneer in yardsharing, describes it as “an arrangement between people to share skills and gardening resources; space, time, strength, tools or skills, in order to grow food as locally as possible, to make neighborhoods resilient, kids healthy and food much cheaper.”
Hyperlocavore found us online and wants to help Happy Valley jump on the farmwagon, er, bandwagon. Homegrown Happy Valley now has a page on Hyperlocavore where we can participate, whether by finding yard space or trading veggies, seeds, tools, and gardening secrets. So join the group and help us kick off yardsharing in Happy Valley. Long live local!
For more information on yardsharing and Hyperlocavore watch the following.
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