Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The Lancaster Backyard Farm Initiative



The Lancaster Backyard Farm Initiative

The Lancaster Backyard Farm initiative is an urban/suburban personalized CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and it is a method that enables the food buying public to enjoy a personal relationship with a farm and to receive a weekly basket of produce. By making a financial commitment to a farm, people become "members" (or "shareholders," or "subscribers") of the CSA. Most CSA farmers prefer that members pay for the season up-front, but some farmers will accept weekly or monthly payments. Some CSAs also require that members work a small number of hours on the farm during the growing season. A CSA season typically runs from late spring through early fall.


The Lancaster Backyard Farm Initiative
is a personalized CSA that transforms small, individual backyards into a collective of mini-farms. Each Backyard Farm is designed according to the owners’ eating habits, preferences and growing conditions.

Homegrown will install your garden and continue to care for it throughout the season. We will visit your garden weekly, weed, harvest and leave a basket of fresh produce from your own backyard on your doorstep. You get the health benefits and savings that come with growing your own vegetables without the work and upkeep.

This is just like a CSA, only made to your specifications, and you get to keep the garden year after year.
Due to the various growing conditions and over yielding qualities of many food plants during the growing season, produce from the backyard farms can be shared throughout the network to create a more diverse harvest for each member.

If you choose to join The Lancaster Backyard Farm Initiative, we become the farmers, your yard becomes the farm, strangers become friends and neighborhoods become communities.