We’ve received twice as many applicants as last year for our urban farmer positions. There are lots of amazing folks in the mix! Keep any eye out for profiles of our (undoubtedly incredible) 2010 farmers….
Backyard Harvest is hiring urban farmers for the 2010 season January 13, 2010
Summary
Backyard Harvest farmers are the direct link between homeowners and their backyard food gardens. Farmers grow fresh vegetables in customer yards and provide exceptional customer service. This is a part-time contract position with PRI Cold Climate that reports to the Backyard Harvest Farm Manager and works as a team member within PRI’s Backyard Harvest program. This is an hourly, non-benefit earning position.
Duties and Responsibilities
Farming
- Prepare spring and summer garden beds along with paid/volunteer crew. Plant a wide diversity of annual and perennial food plants for multiple harvests throughout the season
- Install basic irrigation systems and fencing
- Maintain vegetable beds – weeding, culling, replanting
- Autumn tear-down of gardens
Customer Service
- Provide courteous and efficient customer service to garden owners
- Communicate regularly with garden owners via garden journals and/or face-to-face conversation
- Contribute to a weekly e-newsletter
Record Keeping
- Track harvest by weighing and recording poundage of vegetables and types of crops
- Keep accurate records and reminders for each garden in the garden journals (online format that customers can follow) and farmer journals (to kept by the farmer)
- Report problems, needs, questions and program feedback to the Farm Manager
Community-Building
- Participate in community events (e.g. classes, celebrations, tours)
Outreach and Team Meetings
- Assist Program Coordinator and Farm Manager in implementing the outreach and marketing plan
- Attend team meetings twice a month during the growing season (April – October)
Qualifications
- Minimum 3-4 seasons of ecological gardening, farming or other food production experience
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work independently and responsibly
- Reliable transportation within the city (bike with trailer OK)
- Ability to lift 50 lbs
- Basic building skills
- Possess (or acquire) basic harvesting and maintenance tools: pruner, harvesting knife, hoe
- Customer service experience and knowledge of permaculture desirable
- Passion for a sustainable local food system
Compensation and Hours
- Depending on # of gardens assigned + time of season, approximately 9-20 hours/week
- $575/garden per season (min. 4 – max. 10 gardens/farmer) + $13/hour for required meetings, garden installation and garden tear-down
- Training in sustainable agriculture methods, permaculture introduction, basic business, specialty gardening skills
- Access to a separate growing site for farmers and other Backyard Harvest program consultant use
Send resume and letter of interest to Krista Leraas at harvest@pricoldclimate.org. Deadline is February 1, 2010.
Persons of color are encouraged to apply. Candidates living in or near Frogtown in St. Paul, South Minneapolis or Northeast Minneapolis are also encouraged to apply.
Meet Our Interns: Sarah Leone December 21, 2009
I’m Sarah Leone and I’ve been an intern for Backyard Harvest since June 09 and if you were a customer this past season you’ve probably met me. I’m in my final year at the U of M and will be graduating with an anthropology major and a history minor with a special focus on ecological anthropology. Some of you may be wondering what that means, but basically anthropologists study culture and how people interact with others and ecological anthropology focuses on cultural attitudes toward, and perceptions of, the environment.
Since I have started this internship I’ve done a variety of things including data collection, interviewing customers, taking notes on meetings, and help in the evaluation process of Backyard Harvest. I enjoy all the people I’ve met through this program and am excited to continue working with the program this coming year. When I started with the program I didn’t know much about farming or permaculture, and I’m amazed at all that I’ve learned over the past months, both from those running the program and the customers, and I can’t wait to learn more!
Reflecting on the 2009 Season December 3, 2009
A Backyard Harvest garden - October 2009
Can you believe that it was just one year ago that a few of us at PRI Cold Climate started to really dig into the idea of piloting a program in urban agriculture and permaculture? My goodness how a year can fly by! Since those October days, we have seen Backyard Harvest take root and blossom.
We opened January of 2009 with a bang when we hosted our first open house to introduce the community to Backyard Harvest. (Thanks to member Karen Graham for dreaming up our name!) We thought getting 40 folks in the door would be a great success. To our pleasant surprise, over 100 packed in to hear about the program, express their excitement (and concerns) and offer their support.
This same excitement over sustainable urban food production brought us over 40 applicants for our farmer positions, brought in thousands in donations and sold out our urban ag training series. Could this be the time for urban permaculture to really take off in the Twin Cities?
After hiring three outstanding urban farmers, our team set out to grow a diverse array of vegetables, herbs and edible flowers for 15 South Minneapolis households. These garden-owners came with a wide variety of garden experiences, expectations and income levels. Some sought to learn gardening skills by following along with their farmer while others were just getting started with gardening and cooking fresh seasonal foods. So what did they think?
According to our end-of-season survey, for garden-ownersthe experience of having a garden in their yards ranked right up there with receiving high quality, fresh produce. Learning about gardening techniques, plant varieties and cooking with fresh produce were important parts of this experience. Garden-owners also report having made related changes in their lives such as connecting more with their neighbors, buying other locally produced products and becoming more adventurous in their cooking and eating. Garden-owners were overwhelmingly in favor of recommending Backyard Harvest to their friends, family and neighbors. In fact, many have told us that they have already done so!
Big thanks goes out to our three wonderful farmers: Seth Schlotterbeck, Stefan Meyer and Grayce Backstrom. Their admirable passion and skill made this positive experience possible. While we will miss Seth as he goes off to work again for Easy Bean Farm, a CSA in west central Minnesota, and we will miss Grayce as she goes on to develop her own Backyard Harvest-inspired business in Colorado, we are happy that Stefan will be sticking around the Twin Cities and look forward to working with him in 2010.
Thanks for your support of our fledgling program! If you would like to be included on the Backyard Harvest e-mail newsletter list or if you have other questions or comments about the program, contact Krista Leraas, Program Coordinator, at harvest@pricoldclimate.org.
More FAQs… November 24, 2009
strawberries and chives living together in harmony
Q: In your new Strawberry Companion Beds, why are chives and borage planted with strawberries?
A: Chives are pest repellent to keep pests away from the strawberries. They are also edible. Chives will spread but they tend to be balanced by the spreading of the strawberries. Borage is an attractant for beneficial insects as well as an edible flower.
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Q: In your new Asparagus Companion Beds, why are alyssum and dill planted with asparagus?
A: Dill is an attractant for beneficial insects. Alyssum is also an attractant as well as good ground cover for suppressing weeds.
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Do you have questions about Backyard Harvest, backyard farming or urban permaculture? Just ask and we will do our best to answer!
You Ask & We Respond… October 29, 2009
Q: I’ve grown more vegetables than I can use and wonder if food shelves could use this excess food. Also, are there any programs to harvest vegetables from backyard gardens and distribute them to people who could use them?
A: Yes, food shelves will gladly take extra produce though some are less inclined to take highly perishable items like lettuce or other greens because they don’t have refrigerator space for them. For Backyard Harvest, we ended up bringing our extras to a place that had both a food shelf and a daily meal program – the Aliveness Project on 38th and Chicago. The fact that they have a meal program allows them to use perishable items quickly. So if you have highly perishable items, look for a shelter or church or someplace with a daily meal program.
At this point, Backyard Harvest has not coordinated an effort to collect excess food from citizens’ veggie gardens. This is not the first suggestion/request for it, however, and we may end up adding this service in the future. Fruits of the City at the Minnesota Project will take fruit and harvest from fruit trees.
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Q: I’m confused. Backyard Harvest seems like a small business yet you are a program of a 501(c)3 nonprofit. How does that work?
A: Yes, folks do this very service as a for-profit business. In addition to offering this fee-based service, we also offer community events, training for our farmers, educational opportunities for our garden clients, gardens that are dedicated solely to providing food to food shelves, etc. The significant difference between how we run our “business” and how it could be run as a for-profit is in what we do with the money that we do make (which was none this first year). Any profits that we make will be rolled into offering more programming for the community including classes, low cost options for low income clients, more food shelf gardens, more community-building services, etc.
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Do you have questions about Backyard Harvest, backyard farming or urban permaculture? Just ask and we will do our best to answer!
Come visit us! October 14, 2009
photo by Zoë Francois of one of her first Backyard Harvest garden harvests
Backyard Harvest will be talking & tabling like crazy for the next few weeks. We’re working on getting the word out about our 2010 gardens & installing them this fall! New full service garden customers get a $50 discount if they sign up in time for us to put in their garden this fall (weather dependent).
We’d love to see anyone hungry (ha!) to have one of our gardens in their yard, be a volunteer or learn more about what we do & what’s coming up. Visit us at one of our info sessions or at a farmers’ market soon!
- Saturday, October 17 – Mill City Farmers Market – Get a rare opportunity to meet ALL THREE of our wonderful 2009 farmers.
- Sunday, October 18 – Kingfield Farmers Market
- Monday, October 19 – Info Session at Butter Bakery Cafe
- Wednesday, October 21 – Info Session at Urban Earth Flower & Garden Co-op
- Thursday, October 22 – Info Session at Fireroast Mountain Cafe
- Friday, October 23 – Table at Fresh screening at Southwest High School
- Saturday, October 24 – Midtown Farmers’ Market
- Sunday, October 25 – Kingfield Farmers Market
- Monday, October 26 – Info Session at Linden Hills Park and Rec Building, 3100 W 43rd St, Minneapolis
More information on these events, Backyard Harvest and more at http://www.pricoldclimate.org.
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What Else You’re Buying Into September 12, 2009
[[photo by: WontonBrutality]]
The Backyard Harvest program has, so far, proven to be a really amazing experience. At least, speaking from the point of view of a homeowner – we’re hoping that Stefan likes stopping by the garden as much as we look forward to his visits!
And that goes to a point that’s become more clear as the season goes one. Backyard Harvest is a lot more than just getting a garden installed in your yard. As a garden host in the project, you get the harvests from the garden and it’s not dissimilar from a CSA in that way. Sometimes you get a ton of produce, and other years, some plants have a harder time. For example, this has not been the best season for tomatoes, not just for us, but for the whole state. It was cool when it needed to be hot, wet when dry would have been better, and every other alternate that a farmer could struggle against!
One week, we came home and Stefan had added some things from his own home garden to bolster our harvest. Not only was it delicious and very welcome to get a couple of great tomatoes, it was really generous and totally not required on his part. He did it, I think, because he wanted us to have some of the great vegetables that normally pop up this time of year.
The real effect was, though, that we realized that the project is about knowing your food and using your yard for more than grass, but it’s also very much a group of people excited and passionate and eager to build a community around the idea. We’ve already decided we’re in for next year, and a big part of that is how much we enjoy the people as much as the project.
- Lisa in Kingfield
[[photo by: WontonBrutality]]
The full photo collection for this project is over on Flickr.
Join us for a Benefit Concert for Backyard Harvest! September 3, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009, 7-11pm
Acadia Cafe, 329 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis, 612-874-8702
$10-20 suggested donation
Bring the whole family!
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Proceeds will support Backyard Harvest’s efforts in 2010 to:
~~ Bring more fresh, permaculture-infused gardens to the yards of Twin Citians of all kinds ~~
~~ Provide more crisp produce to food shelves ~~
~~ Train more urban farmers ~~
~~ Do our part to grow a healthy local food system! ~~
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This fun-filled evening will feature the music of
The Poor Nobodys
Soukousize
…and Rockthrow
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Thanks to Acadia Cafe for their kind support. Be sure to try something from their amazing beer selection!
A Season Change? August 25, 2009
[[photo by: WontonBrutality]]
The middle of August was a weird one, wasn’t it? Drought, followed by Spring-like rains. Ninety degrees, then seventy. Oh yeah, and a tornado. With all of that going on, it makes sense that our garden seemed to take a little nap for a bit. Our harvests switched from mountains of lettuce to collections of a few pear tomatoes and squash with a cucumber added in for good measure. Delicious all, but strange mixes of things, you know?
Notes from Stefan have been prepping us for the switch to Fall plantings. The first bean patch went away last week and he pulled a few spent broccoli plants earlier this week. In there place we’ll get spinach, cilantro, radishes, peas, and mixed greens.
I’ve been noticing as the season has gone on how interesting the garden’s transitions have been (both the husband and I didn’t have a lot of vegetable garden experience before this), but I’m not quite ready for the switch to Fall. It looks like we’re just going to have to deal, though, because the plants will do it whether we want to go along or not!
PS – We started getting these cute little peppers and I’m loving them to death – spicy, but not crazy, and with some fruitiness going on too.
[[photo by: WontonBrutality]]
The full photo collection for this project is over on Flickr.
