Jordan sells his home-grown produce from a stand right in front of his home in Vancouver, BC. Every Sunday he harvests herbs, vegetables, fruit and also some eggs, and places them for sale at the end of his driveway. He calls his market stall “Southlands Farm”.

Now what if other backyard gardeners in his neighbourhood brought their extra harvested produce to him to sell. What if there was a Jordan with a table at the foot of a driveway in every neighbourhood in town. These would be true City Farmer’s Markets, Zero-Mile Market Stands.

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Photo Credit: Len Spoden

Pedaling the Local Food Movement
Three D.C. Women Take a Three-Month Bike Trip to Montreal to Document Community Agriculture Efforts

By Adrian Higgins
Washington Post July 24, 2008;

The result is a low-budget documentary, “Garden Cycles Bike Tour,” which captures the spirit of their unusual 2,000-mile sojourn and the much larger movement that inspired it.

In the course of their three-month odyssey, the women found a community garden in the gutted ghettos of Baltimore, were run off the road by a truck in New Jersey, abandoned efforts to cycle across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York and got hopelessly lost in New England towns. They slept in the gardens of strangers, discovered new ethnic food and recipes and cemented their desire to change the world by growing vegetables.

Link to the article and video interview with the women filmmakers.