Our friends at Hyperlocavore, an important yard-sharing social networking site where individuals can find potential partners for sharing gardens in their regions, are looking to raise some money for a new build-out to the site. Here’s what Hyperlocavore is about:
“What we want to see: healthy kids who love the smell of dirt, blocks with foreclosed homes becoming vibrant neighborhoods again, tables full of delicious safe food at costs we can all afford, and neighbors who become real friends… join us!”
Check out the vedieo below for more information from Liz herself.
About the site’s fundraising, moderator Liz McLellan says Hyperlocavore needs $6,200 to make important updates:
“Without giving away too many details our next version will make the project much more self supporting, while we maintain the commitment to remain free to individuals and expand our offerings to other organizations.”
The thing about Hyperlocavore that I like? It’s rigorous support of truly local food. “Local” can mean anything, after all. Here in Minneapolis, where I live, local can mean 3M or Cargill. But gardening cuts through the need for labels, definitions, and arguments about labels and definitions. When it’s your food that you grew yourself, you’re eating as local as you can. You’re hyper-local.
So join the site, become a Hyperlocavore and learn about garden-sharing possibilities in your area, and lend the site a hand if you can, Fair Food Fighters.
I’ve been talking to the lovely Liz McLellan on Twitter and am totally into what she’s doing. It’s hugely important that people have a hand in producing their own food. I feel like that grow-eat connection is missing in most families.
I’ll love how Liz talks about how differently-abled people can have access to gardening through a yard-sharing program. Kneeling in a garden for hours at a time is tough on the body for lots of folks over a certain age. Hyperlocavore is a very thoughtful and necessary community-building site.
I just donated and am going to keep agitating so that others do, too. I want in on this yard-sharing business.