Farm My Yard: Resources

Farm My Yard

Resources connected with Farmmyyard.org

  1. Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
    Start here!
  2. GrowPortland – Empowering our community to grow healthy food.
  3. FoodHub – FoodHub gathers professional food buyers, wholesale producers, distributors and industry suppliers in one dynamic community.
  4. Friends of Family Farmers Promoting and Protecting Socially Responsible Farming in Oregon.
  5. SPIN-Farming https://www.spinfarming.com/ create an income-producing farm in your (or someone else’s) yard.
  6. FoodPool in Oakland, CA – FB page:  At FoodPool, we see the “problem” of excess garden abundance as an opportunity! It is an opportunity to help provide people in need with fresh, ripe, homegrown produce. The only obstacle lies in linking growers with their hungry neighbors. Our answer is “FoodPooling.”
  7. Seattle Urban Farm Company – started early in the spring of 2007. It was created find the answer to one simple question: Does anybody need help setting up a vegetable garden?Great resources, and interesting looking book on backyard farming.
  8. iFarm: a great resource for people looking for farm land and those wishing to offer farm land in Oregon!
  9. Rogue Farm Corps also, blog post on this site @ here

Yard Rents – new Farm My Yard sponsor!

YardRents.com

Click the image above: YardRents.com is offering a 10% discount to Portlanders who use their Farm My Yard package – and, they’ll also donate 10% of your purchase to Farm My Yard!

Farm my Yard

Farm My Yard has a new sponsor, YardRents.com – When Portlanders use YardRents.com for their project YardRents.com will give a 10% discount and also donate 10% of the purchase amount to Farm My Yard.

If you’re planning on any yard projects, please use the “FarmMyYard” code on their website – get a great deal – have your tools delivered and picked up?  Wow! And, support a great local organization/effort – Farm My Yard!

Send them some Facebook love if you like: https://www.facebook.com/YardRents

Next, seeking a seed company 🙂

 

Farm My Yard Design Contest in full swing!

Design Contest for Farm My Yard

I’m having fun with a sign design contest. Check it out @ https://farmmyyard.org/yard-sign-design-contest/
Here’s Kate posing with my first sign this weekend. This is going to be good!