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Gardens

The UFC has leased over 4,000 sq. ft. of urban land with barter currency. In other words, the land owners have shared their land in exchange for barter shares. They may use these barter shares to purchase the food that has been grown on their land by the helpful hands of working members.

As of mid-April, 2010, a handful of working members have contributed nearly 100 hours of gardening labor.

We need your help to turn this project into something that can really make a change in people’s lives. Our goal is to turn our handful of working members into a legion of working members. But we need your help!

One day, we hope to be able to grow enough food to provide not only for our members, but our underserved communities as well. We have partnerships with the Boys and Girls Club of America, which provides meals for over 100 kids all summer and the Sister’s of the Road café, which provides extremely low cost meals to the poor on a daily basis.

The UFC also has eight committed gardeners who grow food independently, who have agreed upon standards of sustainability, and who will harvest and bring their food to market to share with the community in exchange for barter currency.

We are always happy to have more growers involved in the project.

This is a great way to help the UFC if you do not have a lot of extra time, but do have a garden or fruit tree in your yard and would like a place to take the extras so that they don’t spoil on the vine. This is a relatively low commitment role with high rewards. Remember growers; you may use your barter currency to purchase some help with your gardens! We will allow committed growers a limited amount of barter debt (20 slugs= 20 hours) to help you get started! We are hear to help support you in growing more food.

Standards of sustainability…

To ensure the best quality and best nutrition in our produce, we have developed strict standards of sustainability.

Clean Soil...

You can contact us at: urbanfarmcollective@gmail.com