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San Francisco Firm Harvests Potential of Unused Land / Designs and Plants Organic Vegetable Gardens for Clients


Green Lifestyle  (tags: organic gardening, veggies, San Francisco, green business, green services )

Larry
- 529 days ago - sfgate.com
MyFarm, a new San Francisco business took the family's local and organic diet to a new level: by designing and planting an organic vegetable garden in their Marina district backyard. The Vollens pay MyFarm a weekly fee to maintain and harvest the veggies
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Larry Sheehy (278)
Monday June 23, 2008, 9:22 pm
Urban Agriculture Resources List, from article:

Guerrilla gardening. Visit guerrillagardening.org. Click on Community and navigate to San Francisco.

Free Farm Stand. This volunteer-run organization offers produce grown in local backyards free to the public, especially to low-income people. Sundays 1-3 p.m., Parque Niņos Unidos at the corner of 23rd Street and Treat Avenue. freefarmstand.org.

MyFarm. For more information, visit www.myfarmsf.com.

People's Grocery. Nonprofit with programs to increase access to healthy food in West Oakland, including urban agriculture. peoplesgrocery.org.

Quesada Gardens Initiative. Community of Bayview residents who tend a vegetable garden on a city median. quesadagardensblog.blogspot.com.

Three Stone Hearth. A Berkeley cooperative that sells nutrient-rich prepared meals for pickup or delivery, following the principles of Weston A. Price. threestonehearth.com or e-mail info@threestonehearth.com.

Victory Gardens 2008+. A San Francisco pilot project to create more vegetable gardens in backyards, parks and rooftops: sfvictorygardens.org.
 

Larry Sheehy (278)
Monday June 23, 2008, 9:44 pm
-from the article:

Founder Trevor Paque, 29, envisions what he calls a decentralized urban farm - a network of backyard organic vegetable gardens that will free urbanites from their reliance on food trucked in from the country. Clients who live in the sunny Mission District will grow tomatoes for denizens of the foggy Richmond, where broccoli and other cool-weather vegetables will thrive in customers' backyards. And bicycles, rather than gas-guzzling trucks, will be the main method of transport.
 
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