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Start Yard Business: People who want to garden don’t always have the space to do so.
People who have space don’t always have the time or know-how to plant it and make good use of it.
And gardening is likely to be easier, more fun, and more productive with help.
One answer to all of these problems is to set up a yard business.
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1. Start finding partners as soon as you decide to start yard sharing.
The sooner you start, the more successful you’ll be at finding the right folks and planning for your yard share.
- Call your friends who live in apartments or your grandmother who knows a thing or two about growing food in your area.
- Make it a family affair, or a way to gather some folks you don’t get to see often enough.
- Or bring up a yard sharing project at your house of worship.
- Perhaps your faith community would be interested in growing fresh food for the hungry each spring.
- It pays to start now.
- Healthy groups and good agreements take time to develop.
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2. Start it off with a party.
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3. Read up.
Visit your local library, or begin collecting your own resources.
- For those who are more risk averse.
- And have some anxieties about how to share without encountering legal bumps.
- Start with a copy of Janelle Orsi and Emily Doskow’s book The Sharing Solution
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4. Have an expectations discussion early.
Start asking these sorts of questions:
- When is it OK to be at the home or yard of the host yard, and when is it not OK?
- Will you compost collectively?
- Is it a strictly organic garden?
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5. Create your online home.
You’ll find that sharing your experience online helps both you and others to learn from it.
Share planning, documents, videos, pictures, links and jokes.
Teach each other what you know about how to grow in your zone.
And create a place where new members.
Down the line can catch up on all the ideas and wisdom you’ve gathered.
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Documenting things will help you evaluate what worked and what didn’t.
Not only in terms of what you tried to grow.
But also in how you chose to organize the project.
Imagine the yard share going on for many seasons.
And plan for success by sharing knowledge from the start.
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6. Involve the kids.
If kids are going to be part of the garden share.
Make sure they participate in the planning and expectation setting.
If they’re involved at the start, they’re more likely to enjoy participating.
Work some kid-centered fun into your plan.
A garden is one of the best hands-on learning experiences a kid can have.
If you have any biology or nature geeks in your group.
Ask if they can hold a lesson now and then.
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7. Gather resources together.
As a group, make a list of all the things you hope to grow.
- Research what works for your zone and pull a kitty together.
- Order your seeds and starts.
- Some heirloom and specialty seed houses run out of stuff before spring.
- Some things like garlic starts go quickly.
- Take an inventory of who has what tools, seeds, transplants, cuttings.
- And a list of the items you will perhaps need to buy.
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- Plan for storage of tools and make sure people know where everything goes at the end of the day.
- Make sure people’s time, knowledge, and commitment are all valued.
- Money shouldn’t be the only currency you acknowledge.
- Be aware that many people are coming to the yard share project with a need to save, not spend heavily.
- Get ready to bargain hunt and browse all those spring garage sales.
- A garden does not need to be an expensive project.
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8. Talk to your neighbours about what you’re doing.
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9. Ask questions online of folks who are already yard sharing.
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10. Plan for harvest and storage; success and failure.
Some plants you try will have fantastic results.
Other plants you try to grow will fail.
Set your expectations with this in mind.
- Will you can or dehydrate the excess?
- Will you need to plan to purchase some tools for this as well? Will you save seed for swapping next year?
- Dry season is a great time for gathering partners.
- And planning, but you can start the process at any time of year.
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Things You’ll Need
- Yard space for sharing
- Garden tools
- Plant seeds and seedlings
- Planning and collaborating space online
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