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.

Take the Hyperlocavore Pledge

Take the Hyperlocavore Pledge

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!

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!

Next round – help hyperlocavore.com pick a logo!

Hyperlocavore.com needs your help. Which logo conveys the yardsharing and group gardening idea most clearly?

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!