Welcome to the Front Yard Farmer

Meet Wendy, my friend, The Front Yard Farmer:

Make a connection to the earth and experience the satisfaction of growing your own food, all in your front yard.

The Front Yard Farmer will design, build, plant and nurture organic flower and vegetable gardens in YOUR yard or property. People are returning to home gardening and the Front Yard Farmer can make that happen.

Description of Services

>build 2 raised beds, consisting of 2" x 10" Douglas Fir Pine
>8'long x 4' wide, to be set in a sunny spot on site
>deliver and fill the raised beds with a soil and compost mix
>plant seedlings and seeds
>make regular visits to the client to instruct and advise in all matters of >gardening;
>planting
>thinning seedlings
>watering
>weed control
>pest control
>harvesting






Benefits of this Service

>A connection to the earth and the experience of growing your own food
>lightening your carbon footprint
>learning the skills towards self sufficiency
>expanding your pallet




Our Mission

The Front Yard Farmer wants to teach you the skills of growing your own food using organic methods. When you have a first hand experience at choosing what you will eat by literally starting from the ground up, you begin the to see your food in a whole new light.

We will procure all the materials needed from local sources and build the beds where you choose in your yard. All seeding and planting will be done by the Front Yard Farmer; you decide how much you want to be involved with the process.

In the early stages, we will visit your garden 1-2 times a week, seeding and planting, weeding, watering, installing structures (trellises, tomato cages, etc...) and laying down mulch.
The Front Yard Farmer wants to work directly with you to teach you the skills it takes to maintain a garden, you are encouraged to look over our shoulder and ask questions.

Tasting the fruits of your labors is one sure way to make the leap of all the obvious benefits of having your own vegetable garden. A freshly picked salad, a tomato warmed by the sun, peas that are picked off the vine that never make it to the kitchen, the sweet aroma of basil, these are tangible experiences that will take your palette to a new level. A gratifying connection to growing one's own food and the earth itself becomes self evident right away.

The average vegetable/fruit travels 1500 miles before reaching your local supermarket, growing your own food is the most direct and powerful way you can reduce your carbon footprint. Growing a garden is your piece in the larger picture of making a difference in the world.

Wendy's Bio / Experience:

12 years personal gardener - tending perrennial gardens for homeowners and businesses

2 years farming for a Community Supported Farm

3 years growing medicinal and culinary herbs to the market

4 years working as a lab technician for an renown herbal manufacturer

a lifetime home vegetable and herb gardener

Mother of 2 adult sons

Traveler

Athlete; cycling, mountain biking, skiing

Yoga instructor





After spending many years tending the gardens of homeowners, businesses and family members I've realized that teaching individuals the basics of growing their own food is skill that needs to be revived. I've taken a basic blueprint of my own gardens, which has been my personal training ground and simplified it so that I can easily take it to an average
homeowner.

Growing vegetables intensively in a manageable space, offers new gardeners a rewarding experience, one that will create a direct connection to growing one's own food and a reconnection with nature. With the changes we are seeing in the world as we know it, fresh food is no longer a commodity to be take for granted. Between the chemical inputs of large factory farms, lengthy transportation, and carbon output, our food comes at a great price, one that is not always apparent, to say nothing of lack of freshness. The time is right for to grow our gardening skills and have a relationship with our food, possibly right in your own front yard.