The Murray Hill Row-by-Row Project: a Lawn-share CSA
What:
- CSA is short for Community Supported Agriculture. Traditionally, members sign up to receive produce from a vegetable grower on a weekly basis. Families pay a membership fee and then a small, flat, weekly payment for the vegetables they receive. The veggies will vary seasonally and whatever is grown will be split evenly between the members.
- What makes this different: Lawn-share means that participants will give up a large patch of lawn - preferably one-hundred square feet (a ten-foot by ten-foot square) to the gardener - vegetables would be grown on this plot of land throughout the growing season by me. Instead of buying vegetables from a farm - your front lawn becomes the farm!
Who:
- organized by Eliza, 2 1/2 year Murray Hill resident, certified teacher
- needs you - any interested Murray Hill resident
How:
- you provide - land with at least 6 hours of sun a day, hose and nozzle and a $35 sign-up fee
- I - prepare the soil, grow the seedlings, plant seeds, water, weed, harvest, distribute and generally nourish
- Once the harvest begins, you pay $10 a week for your share of the veggies
When:
- Information meeting: Monday, February 2nd, 2009 from 5-7pm at 49 West Coffeehouse, 49 West Street, Annapolis, MD
- Planting will begin as early as mid-March
- Harvest will last through October.
Where:
- Murray Hill residents' front yards
Why:
- I aspire to someday soon grow food as a full-time job. I have no garden-able land myself and need some land on which to grow food.
