No Time to Garden but Want Fresh Veggies from Your Yard?
February 13, 2009 – 1:18 am by Lindsay
One of the reasons I’m a big fan of permaculture and perennial crops (think fruit trees, berry bushes, asparagus, etc.) is that quite frankly it’s less work than a vegetable garden. In veggie gardens, the majority of the crops need to be planted anew each year. If you’re already working 40+ hours a week, it can be a challenge to grow as big of a garden as you’d like. Well, in some cities you can find help…
We’re seeing more and more outfits that provide fresh organic vegetables to customers who want them delivered to their home for an affordable price. And where are these vegetables grown? In some towns, it can be your backyard.
For example, check out Seattle Farm in the Pacific Northwest.
They will come to your yard and set up a traditional in-ground garden or a series of raised garden beds (depending on what makes sense for your landscape and critter traffic). They’ll fill it with soil and plant it up, and then once a week their folks come out to maintain the garden. If you don’t have time to do much work yourself, you can still enjoy a harvest straight from your backyard.
As you can imagine all this service isn’t free, but you can significantly lower the cost by dedicating a portion of your harvest to their organic produce delivery system. This means that the food grown in your yard goes out to feed folks in your community. Be a farmer without all the work!
