10 Ways to Prepare for the Success of Your Yardshare Garden this Winter

As gardeners of all stripes will tell you, winter is the planning season. Stuck inside, with little chance to get your hands dirty, it is the perfect time to pause and reflect. What will your garden be? Who will you bring into the project? What are your hopes? How will you get the resources together? What will you plant? What worked last year and what did not? There is a lot to think about, and when the days get short and the night long – dreaming is the best thing to be doing, because come spring you will be very busy.

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.

On Choosing – A Hyperlocavore Responds to Catastrophe

How do we “carry on”, as the Brits might say? Well, I’m not at all interested in “carrying on” actually. I want to thrive. I was raised with mighty high expectations of what this life can be, and I’m not giving those expectations up. I want to reach the top of Maslow’s heirarchy of needs. I want to love and live well. And I want to eat REALLY well. I got used to that in the 1990’s.

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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.

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!

Super Local and Mighty Tasty – bookofcooks.com

I just came across a wonderful resource called bookofcooks.com that hooks you up with people who love to cook in your neighborhood.

Yardsharing Workbook – Requesting Your Ideas!

I’m in the process of writing a workbook for yard sharing groups. It’s important to keep the workbook a flexible tool. I am assuming groups will have different needs regarding the formality of their agreements. My question to you is what sort of things would you need to work through in an agreement with your yardsharing members before you formed a working group?

Next round – help hyperlocavore.com pick a logo!

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

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!