How it works:

Yards to Gardens lets you share or find all things gardening. Whether you have extra space in your yard, extra tools in the garage, extra seeds or seedings, or just looking for a space to garden, Y2G makes it easy to share what you've got or find what you're looking for.

To post a listing just click on one of the categories below, enter the information requested and your listing will appear on the Y2G map. Create a listing:

Gardener: are you a gardener looking for a space to plant a garden? Yard: do you have extra space in your yard for a garden? Organic Matter: got any extra mulch, woodchips, compost, manure or soil? Tools and Stuff: got any extra gardening supplies to share?

The work that goes into creating, maintaining and improving this resource is a labor of love. This means we rely on your support to pay the costs of keeping it up. Please consider making a donation today. Thank you.

spread the word:

Check out our Y2G FLYER (color or black and white). You can use our flyers to find new gardeners or garden spaces in your area.

Now you can embed the Y2G map on your website!!

We've added the ability for other websites to put a version of our map of listings straight into their pages using an embedded iFrame. The process is simple, and gives you the benefit of all the tools that make Y2G a useful resource. You will need access to your page's HTML, a little elbow grease.

Embed an iFrame: All you do to embed Y2G is insert an iFrame with "src='http://www.y2g.org/embed.php'" into your web page. You will need to specify a height and width for the iFrame and our map will automatically fill it. For for optimal scale we recommend the iFrame be wider than 525 pixels.

View our full Embed instructions.

Y2G Wins the SF Digging Deeper Competition

Yards to Gardens won first prize in a sustainability and design competition out of San Francisco. The award comes with a small prize-check, and a great opportunity to collaborate with the city of San Francisco.
http://diggingdeepersf.ning.com/

Y2G featured in Minneapolis Star Tribune

Judy Arginteanu has written a feature article about Yards to Gardens, highlighting various success stories of new gardens created through the site. Check it out!
http://www.startribune.com/

Y2G now listing Homegrown Minneapolis Community Garden Sites

The Homegrown Minneapolis Community Gardens Pilot Program will make leases available for community gardens on 17 City-owned lots. Y2G is working with the City to spread the word about this great new program. We've included the available sites on our listings page. More information soon.
Homegrown Minneapolis Website