Your Backyard Farmer

Grow organic vegetables in your backyard without breaking a sweat (if you live in Oregon). Your Backyard Farmer is a two-woman company that began installing organic gardens throughout Portland, Milwaukie, and Lake Oswego areas of Oregon back in 2006. All you need is a plot of land that is big enough – 20 by 20 square feet will feed a family of 4 – along with six hours of direct sunlight a day and an outdoor water source.

In exchange, the farming team will provide clients with an organic vegetable farm right outside their door, customized to their family's size and dining choices. Customers get to choose the produce they want grown from a seasonal list of summer and fall crops.

Your Backyard Farmer both installs and visits the garden once a week to weed, harvest and do any additional plantings necessary. Each time they leave, a basket of freshly harvested vegetables is left behind that's cleaned and ready to be cooked or eaten. Weekly costs for a garden big enough to feed a family of four are roughly $40.

For those who want to learn to do it themselves, Your Backyard Farmer also offers a consulting program that runs from March through November, including about 2 hours a month of on-site consultation on topics including soils, pest, disease, garden planning, crop rotation, succession planting, trellising, weeds, transplants verses seeding, cover cropping and more.

This specific company only operates in Oregon…but there is nothing stopping you from starting a similar business in Alpharetta. Demand is high for healthy, organic produce and not everyone wants to drive out to a farm each week to pickup a CSA share.

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Your Backyard Farmer