About Backyard Harvest

Backyard Harvest’s mission is to strengthen the Twin Cities local foods infrastructure one yard at a time by turning lawns into nourishing and healthy landscapes. We connect eaters directly to their food, neighbors to one another, and urban farmers to professional opportunities.

Backyard Harvest is a community-building program in urban Permaculture. The program provides both garden fresh food and garden education for homeowners, renters and neighborhoods, as well as entrepreneurial and small-scale food production training for our farmers. Our farmers contract with homeowners, renters and communities to create gardens in their backyards, maintain the gardens and harvest all of the produce weekly for each family.

Backyard Harvest Brochure (360kB)

Sign up for e-updates on the Backyard Harvest Program: If you are interested finding out more about the program, interested in being a farmer, having a garden in your backyard or getting your neighborhood involved in this project - please sign up to our Backyard Harvest Contact List. We will send you the latest program updates, informational meeting times and promotional materials. (Enter your name and email address in the contact form, click Backyard Harvest category.)

To schedule a consultation or for any other inquiries about Backyard Harvest, contact Krista Leraas, harvest[at]pricoldclimate.org.