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Join Hyperlocavore, Find or Start a Yardshare

Please don't click on the red "sign this pledge" button until you read the following and know what you are pledging to do! You have to be serious to sign this one. No click and forget. What I want you to do, if you are serious about growing your own food is to visit this great website/community, search for a yardshare in your area, and make the effort to contact people in that community. If there is no yardshare group in your area yet, start one! Just name it "seeking yardshare in..." Whether you have a yard to share or are just looking for some dirt to use, (like I am) put your name out there. This is just one of many great resources to help find other like-minded people to join up with. Then make the effort to invite as many friends and family as you can to this website to do the same! Click the link below!
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This is an ongoing pledge that should be fulfilled as often as possible.

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Comments, Suggestions and Stories

Calyb Hare @ 08:44PM PT Sep 13

I am very interested in sustainable local living and am looking to sow some seeds in 2010, with the intention of feeding myself and sharing with friends and neighbors. For me this pledge is about being honest about my intentions and by doing so will help to build stronger local communities.
Alice P @ 07:16PM PT Sep 10

A group of friends and I already did this - we did not know the term "yardshare" but we found some good strangers in our town to donate their yards to our small gardening collective.
Alice Diane Celebre Ringoes, NJ @ 03:01AM PT Sep 01

I have started a community garden at my organic farm.
Darlene Davis Garden City, MI @ 06:14PM PT Jun 03

This is an excellent project, and I have joined to see if I can locate a garden to share...thank you.
starvin marvin Hooterville, North Dakota, and Taffee, Minnesota and Big Beavers, OR @ 04:47PM PT Jun 02
Pledge fulfilled Jun 02!

One time my foster parents sent to a communal garden and didn't tell me it was and I picked bushels of stuff from all over garden and brought it home. They were surprised how much there little section had produced. Woops.
Jaime Tamez Los Ranchos, NM @ 11:36PM PT Jun 01

We have initiated a community garden at Cuidando Los Niños
with our preschoolers and the community. This is very significant because all of our children are from families experiencing homelessness. The food grown will be used by our nutritionist to help feed the children.

www.clnkids.org
rosemary rannes Salem, NH @ 08:35PM PT May 26
Pledge fulfilled May 26!

Our community garden is an amazing place full of people eager to share their expertise, know how do's and don'ts,
tips and tools. The Food Bank is the recipient of some of the corporate garden plots to which individuals may contribute as well. There is lots of laughter and a wonderful pot luck harvest in early Autumn. In so many ways this 'exercise' grows a Spirit of Gratitude which this year I especially appreciate.
Latina Adams @ 03:31PM PT Mar 28
Pledge fulfilled Mar 28!

I have found 5 other women to share a large garden in my back yard. We need to get the ground ready, plan/map out the garden, and we should start planting the cool-weather vegetables in a couple of weeks.
Marie Richie Portland, OR @ 02:37PM PT Mar 28
Pledge fulfilled Mar 28!

As a trained horticulturalist, I'm taking yard-sharing to the next level as half of the Sellwood Garden Club in SE Portland, Oregon. Our unique business model provides a CSA-like share of produce each week to club members who let us farm up their yards. In return, they pay for the irrigation water and pledge to buy a water timer by mid-June. We make money to keep going and pay for our materials by selling the extra produce to extrodinary, seasonal restaurants.

This half-barter model allows us to trade people w/ more yard than cash for good, sustainably-produced food and to support the whole thing by delivering ultra-local produce to foodies who can appreciate it in their own way. Moreover, two willing farmers are kept off the dole after loosing their day jobs. Everyone wins!

Though we're full up for the spring season w/ 20 yards, we're still looking for yards to prepare for no-till winter garden planting in July. More info at http://drop.io/sellwoodgardenclub
Jennifer Coken @ 10:12PM PT Mar 27

Looking for someone to share my yard in Northwest Denver! I've got raised planting beds. I've never planted a garden before but am certain that together we can grow some great food to eat, and share with the local foodbank.