Your Backyard Farmer

Here are some of the stories:

"Two women are changing the way we think about our backyards. Across the city, plots that were once littered in beat-up sports equipment and overgrown flowerbeds are providing enough vegetables for whole families. Long forgotten patches of grass now shelter new potatoes and spring onions..."

Orion Magazine

"Suppose you consider it anathema that your next bite of food should journey fifteen hundred miles from its source to your plate. If you live in metropolitan Portland, Oregon—a city, like most, not exactly famous for row crops—you can beat that lamentable average by calling Donna Smith and Robyn Streeter and hiring them to farm your land..."

Touch The Soil Magazine

"For the Love of Food and Farmers
Last year's 10 best sustainable ideas..."

Pesticide Action Network North America Weekly News

Your backyard farmer. Want a garden without having to pick up a shovel?..."

Provocations

"Your Backyard Farmer- Being a front yard vegetable gardener myself, this idea resonated strongly: Your Backyard Farmer will build and manage a vegetable garden in your own back yard, customized to your family's size and dining choices..."

Farm & Garden

"Your Backyard Farmer: A New Model for CSA..."

Food Train

"Eat The City: Models Of Urban Agriculture..."

Portland Tribune

"A yard begets groceries
Entrepreneurs turn clients’ land into household pantry..."

World Changing - Portland

"We infrequently encounter an idea which is so perfectly inspirational that we have little to say other than 'Yes!'..."

Capital Press; The West's Ag Website

"Have tools, will travel
Itinerant growers bring farm to customers’ back door. Most people wouldn't expect to find farmers at the end of a cul-de-sac in a subdivision on the southeast edge of Portland..."

Oregon Tilth

"Where do gardeners come from..."

The art of survival

"Your Backyard Farmer, started by two farmers in Portland, Oregon, provides community based farming and creates "small sustainable organic farms at your backdoor..."

Celsias

"Mom there's a farmer in our backyard..."

Oregon Live.com

"Eat your greens: Portland says these businesses are eco-BEST..."

Who's your Farmer?

"Your backyard farmers are Cerified Naturally grown since 2007, and abide by the rigorous standards that meet the requirements through responsible and environmental practices..."