Webisode features Vancouver’s Sharing Backyards Project

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The 100-mile diet? How about the 100-metre diet? The cheapest way to enjoy local food is to grow it! Share your backyard with others and learn how to grow your own food while developing a self-sustained lifestyle. Link to Food Network here.

Director/Editor: Maayan Cohen
Camera: Maayan Cohen, Galit Mastai

Sharing Backyards

City Farmer’s Vancouver Sharing Backyards web site is featured in this webisode for the new TV show “The 100 Mile Challenge” on the Food Network. Elizabeth Leboe of North Vancouver and Marjorie Carroll, the woman who shares her garden, are featured. Also featured is the man who started Sharing Backyards in Victoria, who built the City Farmer Vancouver Page, a visionary coder, Patrick Hayes. Christopher Hawkins is now coordinating an expansion of Sharing Backyards to many cities in North America.

Presently Sharing Backyards is in in these cities:

In Canada:

Victoria, BC
Nanaimo, BC
Vancouver, BC’s Metro area
Maple Ridge, BC.
Williams Lake, BC.
Winnipeg, MB.
Halifax, NS.
Golden, BC

In the United States:

Portland, OR.
Cleveland, OH
Washington, DC Metro Area.

Christopher says: I am currently in negotiation with 10 others regarding new programs, and I’m certain there will be new interest each month.

Link to Vancouver’s Sharing Backyard’s web page here.

Link to Sharing Backyard’s Home Page here.