Backyard Harvest Customers

Backyard Harvest 2010

• Are you interested in having a lush garden growing outside your home?
• Are you short on time or expertise in getting a garden started?
• Would you like to find a basket of fresh organic vegetables on your back step each week?
• Are you interested in helping to grow your local food system?

If so... we have a backyard farmer for you!

Our Full Service Package

We happily offer three garden designs ranging from 80- to 120-square-feet. These bountiful packages include the following:

• New in 2010:  Garlic! (for gardens installed in fall 2009)
• New in 2010:  Better varieties!
• New in 2010:  Add-on gardens! (Heirloom Potato Bin, Strawberry Companion Bed and Asparagus Companion Bed also available a la carte -see details below)
• 16 to 20 weeks of fresh vegetables, herbs and edible flowers (over 30 different crops)
• A comprehensive, professional garden design
• Personal urban farmer who will install and maintain the garden, harvest the vegetables, and leave them at your door
• Community events (e.g. garden parties, workshops, canning bee)
• Site assessment including soil test*^
• Compost blend and compost tea
• Mulch
• Plants and seeds (over 30 different crops!)
• Watering system (w/ timer)^
• Garden journal with notes and communication with your farmer
• E-newsletter from Backyard Harvest

*Negotiable and to be determined in a consultation
^One-time set-up cost. Back-to-back growing seasons patrons will have all of part of this cost waived.

2010 Specialty Gardens

Specialty Gardens include an Heirloom Potato Bin, Asparagus Companion Bed, and Strawberry Companion Bed.

Add additional food options to your garden design or order a minimum of two options separately without a full garden installation. Grow potatos in a small space with an easy to harvest potato bin! Start some perennial edibles companion plant gardens with Asparagus or Strawberry options!  

What You Need to Be a Customer

• 6 hours of sunlight in a minimum plot of 10'x10'
• Access to water on your property
• A healthy appetite

Our 2010 year focuses on local neighborhoods including Longfellow, Powderhorn, Linden Hills, Kingfield, Morningside, Highland Park, Frogtown, Northeast Minneapolis. and elsewhere within Twin Cities that have at least 5-10 yards for us to garden.

Thanks to everyone for your support of this fledgling nonprofit project! For more information about our project mission and goals, see our main page.

Download the Backyard Harvest Brochure (360Kb)

Garden Designs

Our Backyard Harvest garden designs are a robust multifunctional system utilizing companion planting, increased edge, integrated pest management and creation of optimal micro-climates. The 2009 garden designs consist of annuals with a succession of cool season to warm season vegetables, herbs and edible flowers.

The garden builds fertility in the existing urbans soils and the plants and seeds are innoculated with compost tea to maximize beneficial organisms. An important aspect of urban gardening is maximizing space; the garden utilizes multiple vertical heights and is planted in relays for maximum harvest yields.

Design options :

• Traditional (square/rectangle)
• Keyhole
• Flower Petal