Organic Foods: Backyard Agriculture

[EdwardRichtofenDr]

You said that you are sold out. What does that mean? People pay you to garden for them or do you sell the harvest and share the profits?

[cookingupastory]

@EdwardRichtofenDr When she says they are sold out, she means they have all the clients they can take on in a growing season. As for the produce, it's the former - all of it goes right back to the property owner. Over time, if the owner/client wants to take over the garden themselves, that's always an option.

[theproducegarden]

The ad at the beginning of this vid (for me) was for "round up", ironic!

[cookingupastory]

@theproducegarden Yes, very ironic!

[siriusstar10000]

I've added it to my favorites.

[niffer58]

i wanna do this but i want more land to do it in and own it. i can't wait

[SuperGjose]

wish i can be part of your team! going to different backyards planting vegetables...thats an awesome Idea!

ive started growing my own veggies at our abandoned backyard and looks like its getting successful now.this is what i do after going to work,gym or run... Im having fun being like a farmer like you guys..you two are awesome!

[mylilsaffire]

great video...are those drip hoses that you use? and if so do you leave them on all the time?

[gwk4657]

I liked your video very much.

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[Pavlovafowl]

Inspirational, I have never understood why this isn't more wide-spread. Lawns are a complete waste of space - worse, people, spend the year spraying toxins on grass. then cutting it, carting clippings off to the tip, which makes compost and sells it full of herbicide residue - how crazy is that. There is a growing number of people, who are now involved in "cow-shares" to be assured of a good supply of organic milk - so why not the same with gardens? All power to Robyn and Donna!

[lusterwings]

Come on everyone wake up! Don't just watch this and do nothing! We've got to not only rattle cages, but bust out of them! Time to start doing this for yourself, you can be free and eat inexpensively! There are people out there just like you who dream of doing this. Let's wake up together and make this a reality, time is ticking!

[CupCakemasterable]

grapness

[weightloss01]

That's a good idea.. I wonder if I could do this in our yard, for us to experience organic foods.. we know where it came from so we're confident enough that we're eating the safe food... Brilliant ideas of you mates!

[hempseed57]

These women must be in awesome shape if all they do is shovel and garden all day.

[Gonji]

Why, youtube....stop it with these ads =_=

[eskimofinn]

(Big Grin) yes you are def' on to something there ladies! (Big Grin)

[casinohijack]

wow thats cool the land that my dad and i live on used to be farming land before they plopped a neighborhood down on it

[Rachna888]

FANTASTIC

[cookingupastory]

@Rachna888 Aren't they? I love what Robyn and Donna have created! I bumped into Donna the other day, and they are well into their 5th season farming like this. Still loving it. =)

[freestylee19]

that's great!!keep up the good work.

[rawchefdan]

Umm yambol77

The term Organic was coined decades before Genetic tech i.e GMO. Organic mean "No Chemicals" and has everything to do with fertilizers, pesticides, herbicide, fungicides...

[kimberlily1983]

@rawchefdan You're technically both right and both wrong. Organic was around before GMO, yes, but it now includes non-GMO in its definition, at least when we're talking about stuff like USDA organic certification, Quality Assurance International etc. Make sure whatever organization does the certifying for a product you use includes non-GMO in its definition: it probably does, but sometimes they don't.

As for fertilizers, etc.: "natural" (compost, manure for ex) is okay in organic agriculture.

[csiegert83]

Pretty good video I myself will grow my own food once I move into a larger place more and more people should do this it only makes sense. One thing though it appears from the video that you drive all around the city to different peoples backyards and work at best a small patch of land for farming. I would have to say your "Carbon Footprint" if you believe in such things would be ten fold the amount of a conventional farmer as far as carbon emitted per kilo of produce produced.

[cookingupastory]

I hear what you are saying - but they actually work in neighborhood 'pockets' at a time to keep their footprint down. And, I think growing the food in the peoples backyards offsets it b/c the homeowner doesn't buy food trucked in from far away.

[yambol77]

Organic food means Non GMO food it has nothing to do with fertilizers

[lalajanewilson]

I have this idea in my mind also. some people were negative and said that although it's a great idea it just wouldn't work. well... thank you so much for proving them wrong. it does work!

it makes no sense to have a big empty useless lawn. let's grow food! can't wait until it comes to ontario!

[IampureSol]

Everyone should have this in their yards and the world would be and look so much better.

[frank2796]

loved your video.

[TheRoemer]

Have you considered having cows and start producing your own milk? Really like your concept :)

[Cathyelliott]

We all have to grow our own food now. Summer is short here in Canada. But we do our best to put some away for winter- onions, wonder if I can grow sweet potatoes?

[SpringHeeledJack330]

sweet potatoes are a warmer weather crop.

[Cathyelliott]

darn. oh well.

[aunthill167]

I grew sweet potatoes last year and they did fairly well... I live in southern ontario.

[Cathyelliott]

That's amazing! I just moved to a neighbourhood that is all veggie gardens. It's a beautiful thing to see. BTW our lettuce is loving all the cool weather after all that hot sun and rain.

[sjwyuma]

Wow. PCB's in pesticides? e-coli engineered into food? Did you graduate high school? Few things are more dangerous than ignorance. And your lack of understanding of basic science and obvious disregard for it are primary reasons America is in trouble. Pepole get sick from one thing in food, bacterial contamination, not pesticides. And bacterial contamination comes from Organic Fertilizers and Human Sanitation. Organic Spinach: Known Killer.

[Cathyelliott]

Wash your food?

[sjwyuma]

Washing, especially with a 60-100 ppm dose of Chlorine will take out most diseases... but the drinking water standard is 4ppm. The better bet is to not rely on organic fertilizers... which means... conventional stuff. I love that people jump in a car, where there chance of death each year is about 1 in 10,000, yet if the chance of negetive effects of pesticide residue on food is less than 1 in a million LIFETIME exposure, it is not allowed to market.. Risk is so misunderstood.

[peterbourgon]

the problem with the chemical fertalizer is that it only has minerals the plant needs, not what we need.

[sjwyuma]

In the vast majority of fields, only N and P, perhaps K are applied. all of the other essential elements are provided by the natural soil complex, which consists of mineral breakdown and the breakdown of previous crop residue tilled in. Organic fertilizers are either animal feces or mined minerals and provide the same things... plus the food contaminents in feces. No one has ever gotten sick from chemical fertiliers. People regularly die from feces contaminated Organic fields.

[sjwyuma]

Interesting. But where is the food safety program? Do they have the written manuels with all that they do to keep the food safe? Are the organic fertilizers they use certified as free from ecoli? Do they wear gloves, hairnets and aprons like we do commercially when we harvest lettuce? Do they have records of everytime they clean their equipment? Do they have an approved Organic plan with complies with the USDA Organic Standard, paid their $1500 inspection fee? It is not Organc.. Sorry!!!

[HighHeadJim]

Yeah, no way that this better than your toxic food. No hair nets or gloves will stop e-coli or salmonella when it is engineered into the produce. I'd much rather take my chances doing it the way our people have for thousands of years versus forcing pesticides and herbacides full of PCB's onto the public. We know how badly the commercial agriculture industry wants to do away with organics, and control the worlds food supply. I won't buy your poison, and soon neither will the public.

[PETALSWORTH]

Exciting! The authentic version of ROSEMARY Boxer and Laura THYME. Two women, love of earth, and a brilliant idea! Congradulation. I have a huge backyard screaming, DIG ME UP!

[kiyafarm]

Fantastic idea girls, good on you for makin the most of it and coming up with such an innovative way to bring great, fresh produce into people's homes and hopefullly making a living at the same time. Really Cool!

[skydogz1]

These gals have it together ...thanx for the informative vid!

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[dikwa89]

i love to see this kind of video... i hope that you can upload it as many as you can... we should tell the whole world that we should do our own farming to reduce food crisis.

[Argonaut22j]

Wouldn't it be amazing if a whole city could produce all its own vegetables and crops?

[CORRIGEEN71]

WHY IS SHE SO FAT

[Coenzyme911]

SHE IS PROJECTING YOUR DEFECT

[ziberteck]

I don't know much about growing vegetables but some of the best corn I ever had came right of a corn stalk from a farm a man in are church owns. That tasted so much better than the corn you get from stores, but mainly I think it was the freshness factor.

[xoiloveyoux2]

i love organic food. i try to eat as much organic things as possible!!!

[cattlewrangler]

Using organic methods to grow vegetables means having better knowledge of crops, as there are a lot of pests and diseases that can strike. Any one of those two or both could wipe out a vegetable crop. Water supplies in towns and cities is full of chemicals, not good for soil when watering vegetables. Personally I think people would be better off to go to their local farmers market unless these two ladies are working for free which I doubt.

[TokinLamb]

Your comments are rather foolish. Irrigation water leads to the destruction of soil also; look at the salizination that has taken place in the soils of western Colorado. Using rainwater is always the best option which is more likely to happen at a small home garden. As far as the topic of topsoil goes, I think you need to look into factor of composting. We need to become more dynamic in our food growing processes and that what these ladies are doing.

[cattlewrangler]

You say my comments are foolish and you repeat some of what I already wrote. What the hell is that all about? How long have you been growing vegetables?

[TokinLamb]

I've been growing veggies for twelve years. I don't know what that matters though seeing as how many people have been gardening for forty years and still have much to learn. I repeated nothing you said, I may have emphasized what you were wanting to say. You made many assumptions in how these ladies run their business and what they know, and that is foolish. Look up their business website and learn a bit more of their practices.

[Versus1984]

@TokinLamb "Using rainwater is always the best option"

Maybe it is. Provided that one lives in an area with alot of rainfall. What should in your oppinion the less fortunate inhabittants of more arid lands such as Egypt do?

[cattlewrangler]

I have been farming all my life growing vegetables and raising cattle. What about rotation of crops if you keep growing vegetables in the same soil year after year your crops will suffer. If you bring in new batches of topsoil every year it will be costly as you need to take away last years topsoil also topsoil doesn't come cheap in towns and cities. Factor in these costs plus cost of soil transport, costs for these women to grow the vegetables seed costs etc and you will have expensive veg.

[jayegaye]

organic is here to stay! well done ladys!

[jjspirko]

What is your revenue model. Do you just charge and grow with the land owner keeping the crop and paying the fee? Or do they provide the land get some food and you sell the rest or a combination. Just wondering looking to do something similar in a few years when we relocate to Arkansas.

[cookingupastory]

Hi, jjspirko. I suggest you contact them. Try yourbackyardfarmer[dot]com

[theveggiedude]

i've started an information blog about veggie gardening, self sufficiency and sustainability...thought some of you guys might be interested,,,

if you are, give me a yell :) e-mail my youtube account

cheers guys

[linagee]

Do you make your own compost too? I've seen some in home composters and was wondering if anyone used those.

[impalapez]

I cut my neighbors lawns in exchange for them not to water their lawns, or use chemlawn etc...but I was just doing it for the clippings for my compost...I'll have to look into this great idea!!!Thanks for posting!!!

[cookingupastory]

What a great idea =)

Though lawns are visually pleasing (imo), they are such resource wasters. If it doesn't rain on regular basis where you live, and/or it gets too hot in the summer, folks just keep pouring water on them. I'd much prefer pulling it out and planting a garden bed... preferably edible.

[Praxxus55712]

Great idea! As long as they refrain from using chemicals, your compost is free for the labor and it's a win/win situation for everyone. More people should think like you. :)

[rockaloolaa]

What a fantastic thing to see.. well done.

Don't suppose you come to Australia?!

I think so many people (including me)would love to grow organically, but first it's the space, and then the time you need to really maintain a vegetable garden... which is where you're idea is brilliant!

[Noz7777]

There are some in Australia - 'Your Patch' is one.

[tawnyday]

superb idea!!!

[kazuza9]

great work ladies , may the lord bless u for the great ideas we need more people like u.

thx

[CaptKelp]

Another great video Cookin'

It is a great idea that will catch on. They have started something new and good -- and it will work. It fills a need. Thxs for the interesting and informative videos.

[TurkishBabyBoy85]

hmmm right vey nice business patti the farmer girl hehehe ;)))

[theproducegarden]

great vid, thanks!!!

[HighPlainsWoman]

I wish I'd heard about this in the spring. I could have tried this venture in my town. I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to pay for someone else to create and manage their backyard garden. Heck, if I had the money I'd pay someone to take care of mine, haha.

[PeaceProfit]

Lawns-2-Lunch, help your*neighbor, your*self, your*planet...

The road creates the way, the traveler creates the journey...

[BladJoe1950]

Great video. ^^

[desertblbuesman]

Very nice  business. Thanks for sharing.

[GardenGirltv]

Love this video! Thank you.

Patti the Garden Girl

[CMLovejoy]

Wow! is right.

I've never seen anything like this.

This is a great idea, but it has to be hard to grow food in so many different places.

How does this work? Do the people pay for them to come over and farm their yard? Do they take their veggies somewhere else and sell them?

WATCH MY VIDEOS TO SEE HOW YOU CAN START FARMING YOUR BACKYARD.

[CommentorX]

CMLovejoy, I'd be interested on tips for preventing suburban wildlife damage. I planted cabbage last year that was eaten down to bare earth by rabbits, I have a constant battle keeping the squirrels off backyard sweetcorn.

[CMLovejoy]

Well for rabbits, I put up chicken wire fence around the perimeter around my garden.

For squirrels I use a can tied to a stick tool. Ill send you link when I can find it.

[ickycan]

Wow great idea!