Yardsharing

Here's another version of yardsharing that could work in any neighborhood or town: Each neighbor commits to growing one (or two) particular vegetables. Everyone in the neighborhood then shares equally with everyone else what they have grown. A Maryland school teacher used this concept to start the Murray Hill Row-by-Row Project. She blogs here.

Greg Plotkin interviews Eliza Toomey (the Maryland teacher) in How to grow sustainable food in your backyard - and excellent piece on different strategies for urban dwellers with little land. (There is land in and around El Paso once you have broken through the caliche or the concrete and rock too many people used to zero-scape their yards with thus killing the underlying soil.)