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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.

If this interests you, please come to the information meeting on 2 February 2009 from 5pm-7pm at 49 West Coffeehouse. Do not worry if you feel you may not meet the requirements - we can modify to fit all situations and levels of interest. If you have any questions, email me at eatoomey@gmail.com.