another great article about Backyard Harvest!
From TakePart.com's Hungry for Change blog, the official blog of the movie Food, Inc.:
Plenty of green thumbs in the world are eager to don Carhartts and gardening gloves and spend an afternoon weeding, planting, and making friends with ladybugs.
But it seems to be a very specific type of person who's skilled at this hobby, while the rest of us stand by longingly, grocery bags in hand, regretting that we're not quite sure where our food comes from.
Enter Backyard Harvest, a gardening service in the Twin Cities that serves up food, not flora. Read on...
Below: Farmer Dina Kountoupes harvests veggies for residents of Rivertown Commons, a 140-unit affordable housing complex in St. Paul. (Photo: Sarah Utter)
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