This urban agriculture project, a network of 12 yards, creates enough food to feed 58 people

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This urban agriculture project, a network of 12 yards, creates enough food to feed 58 people

One truck bed full of Debbie’s front yard vegetables. Debbie Dalrymple and I are harvesting apples from a big backyard tree in Denver’s dense Washington Park neighborhood. Debbie does a lot of guerrilla harvesting throughout the neighborhood, and always with enthusiasm. While I stick to ladders, she climbs around in the tree, standing on branches and reaching for the very best treetop apples. She has a fruit obsession, she says, often stopping by houses with big trees to make sure the fruit will be harvested. A lot of homeowners, it seems, are happy to have her pick their fruit to give to her customers rather than waste it. Five years ago, Debbie started Farm Yard CSA . It’s similar to a traditional community-supported agriculture (CSA) scheme, but rather than source all the food from a single farm outside the city, or even a few coordinated larger farms, hers is a neighbo...

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