MyFarm Does the Work for You

What is the point of having a garden in your back yard if veggies are picked once per week and thrown in your fridge, and you pay more for them than at a market?

The idea behind gardens is to eat things as you need them, within minutes or hours after picking.

I have a medium sized garden and total weekly picking time and other work is less than one hour.

Man some people are lazy or hopeless. I guess if they've got money to burn, god bless em. Probably the same people who spend a thousand on coffee per month too.

This is inspiring - and a great way for some to make a good living while helping the environment and people -

I agree, Brennan. Then again, most people would not even have a veggie garden in their yard. It's seen as being too much maintenance, whether that's really true or not. Also, I think a lot a knowledge about farming is never taught to most people, if they don't spend a lot of time seeking it out. So at least someone is willing to farm all that land that might be entirely lawn otherwise (not that I have anything against lawn when it's used right).

So we are heading back to share-cropping. I agree Brennan, unbelievable laziness. Half of the pride and fun (yes fun) of organic farming is the DIY requirement. While I applaud any effort to green urban and over crowded suburban area's, I am utterly dismayed by the lack of effort on the garden owner.

If you need to know what to do with your homegrown crop, you could do worse than checking out all the free seasonal recipes on www.vegbox-recipes.co.uk : )

One thing I like about this, having squirmed at the laziness factor, is the idea of masses of people turning their gardens / land over to local organic food production, and especially the idea of neighbours maybe taking down their dividing fences and pooling their resources ...

It would be more efficient, and a smaller footprint, if the garden was centralized, and the goods delivered by bike. Then you could also incorporate other functions of a garden, such as beekeeping, vermiculture, composting, etc. and offer more products and services. BTW, I never though of SF as having small backyards. How big are they elsewhere?

I understand without constructive criticism, things don't get pushed in the right direction, but give me a break. If this is just a venue to condemn others because you have the space and time to own and maintain a garden and they don't, then maybe you should go make lemons out of lemonade somewhere else (like your organic garden).
This is a wonderful business model, and I applaud the gentleman who got it started, as well as the people who understand the personal, social, and environmental value eating and promoting local food enough to pay someone for the edible landscaping services.

Great idea, but the paths in the original posts photo looks highly inefficient. Otherwise... keep it up :D

I can see this working in SF and other places with a mild climate, but here in the northeast this would never work. A 4 month max' growing season with very tight constraints at either end (e.g late frost in the spring killing things off, and snow/leak raking in the fall) makes farming the preserve of the brave here.

The key to permanent sustainability is to try to meet everyone's needs and desires in as many ways as possible. Diversity is key. I would never hire a person to install a vegetable garden for me, nor harvest it - it wouldn't meet my goals. But I love the idea and wish the company much success. They are reducing CO2 in the air - by turning a patch of lawn into organic garden, from fewer cars/trucks involved in buying/delivering the produce, from reducing the number of crops currently being bathed in toxic pesticides and herbicides. I vote for fewer judgmental comments and more willingness to embrace everyone's solutions. Let's focus on the bigger challenges.

Brennan: Many of our MyFarms members have tried gardening at some point in their lives and have had varying(often disappointing) results. While I don't support giving up easily, we all have different strategies we prefer(depending on our strengths) for putting food on the table.

Anonymous:
Composting(sometimes vermiculture) is part of the each members MyFarm. Beekeeping(and resultant raw honey) is something they have to choose to have in their space.

D:
Members often influence the designs.

Jo Sippie Gora:
Agreed! Let's focus on the bigger challenges.

Peas and carrots,
Chris from MyFarm