I’m a Little Baby Bumble Bee…

You may be wondering why I am playing honey bee! Strange thing to do, I have to agree.
I’ve always had a connection to bees, always thought of them as the magic little beings that make us possible. Have you every thought about your near total dependence on the humble bee?

How To Start a Produce Exchange in Your Neighborhood

A produce exchange is an informal gathering of people who are already growing extra food in their yards. Some groups invite non growers to participate but that is up to each group. A yard share is an arrangement to share the work and share the harvest. You can set up either on hyperlocavore but in this post we are focusing on a produce exchange.

Operation Dandelion – We Need You to help us spread the yard sharing idea!

Even if you are not interested in yard sharing yourself, you can help others find yard share partners by spreading the word!
Join Operation Dandelion and help us bring our neighborhoods back!

Help Me Help You Get Yard Sharing Going in Your Town!

Please share this video with any one you know who might be interested in getting yard sharing going in their communities.
I can set you up very quickly! It’s a service your community can have up and running in minutes – for FREE!
What is Yard Sharing?
100 Reasons to Become a Hyperlocavore
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Adding Yard Sharing to Your Community’s Offerings

Are you a faith community or community level organization looking to expand your offerings and impact without expanding your budget? We understand that creating a yard sharing registry is valuable resource for any localizing organization. We’re here to help.

We can set up a branded group for your organization, assign a member of your staff as an administrator and have the all the resources on hyperlocavore.com available to the people in your community who are interested in starting a yard sharing group.

What is a distributed suburban CSA?

Reported by the Wall Street Journal originally – Some folks are taking the yard sharing idea a step further. Meet Kip Nash of Boulder Colorado, who farms 8 neighbors yards as a Community Supported Agriculture operation.

Composting, UR Doing It Wrong!

Another title of this post could be, “How to Make a Perfect Worm Proof Barrier.” Sadly, worms really need to be part of the whole composting process.

What is yardsharing?

“hyperlocavore.com,” which blends bottom-up collaboration with food production. It’s an example of peer-to-peer agriculture, and it’s a pretty neat concept. The founder of hyperlocavore wrote to me, saying that she thought this was a pretty “worldchanging” idea. I agree. Check ‘em out.”

- Jamais Cascio
openthefuture.com and worldchanging.com

Yardsharing is 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!

DIY Project – Low Watt LED Greenhouse

So far it has been a constant 58 degrees inside the greenhouse. I have started only cold friendly plants. It likely gets a bit chillier when the lights go off.

The Great Let’s Get Growing Seed Share

Whether you are a newbie gardener or an experienced grower sign up for The Great Let’s Get Growing Seed Share! It’s free!

Yardsharing Return on Investment – How Does 61K Sound?

This works out to about $600.00 per family for 20 years worth of apples, almonds and blueberries! Growing their own saves all three families a total of $74,000.00 over 20 years. – Assuming your families share, or 24K, is conservatively invested expecting a 2.8 % return over those 20 years and adjusted for inflation – that’s $61,072.13 clams via the magic of compound interest!

100 Reasons to Become a Hyperlocavore.

Here are a lot of the reasons I think group gardens and yardsharing is an idea whose time has come. Every reason is not meant to appeal to everyone. See if just one make sense to you! Then join us to explore the possibilities! It’s up to you what makes sense for you and yours. We just hope to inspire!