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guide bookY2G Guide Book

The y2g guidebook leads you through the process of setting up a garden and developing a healthy relationship between the gardener and the landowner.
Yards to Gardens Guidebook (pdf)

 

Sample Agreement (pdf)

Here is a sample contract to serve as a model for how you might want to build your gardening relationship. Yards are a privately owned space, and gardening is hard work; so make sure everyone’s expectations are understood from the start so things don’t get too messy. A big thank you to the Sustainable Economies Law Center in Oakland, CA for drafting this agreement.

Help spread the word:

Check out our Y2G FLYER (color or black and white).  If you're looking for gardeners or garden-space in your area, you can print off a few of these and give them to neighbors, or post them in community spaces.  Check back for more Y2G materials soon (including educational and informational materials).

 

Gardening Resources:

Gardening Matters
Gardening Matters is a key partner of Y2G and the leading organization on community gardens in the Twin Cities. Community gardens provide opportunities to grow food, to share traditions between cultures and generations, to create habitable environments, and most importantly to build community. The multiple benefits of community gardens extend far beyond a garden's borders!

Gardeningmatters.org

 

MN Energy Challenge
The Minnesota Energy Challenge
Y2G was made possible, in part, by a City of Minneapolis Climate Change Micro-grant. This grant is centered around a city-wide initiative to fight climate change. At the Minnesota Energy Challenge website you can help you calculate your carbon footprint and learn how to save money and energy in your home. It's about supporting individuals and motivating communities towards change. Take the challenge today!

www.mnenergychallenge.org

University of Minnesota Extension
University of Minnesota Extension: Gardening
University of Minnesota Extension provides some of the most comprehensive information on gardening available at a single location. Ever wonder how long it takes for burgundy okra to mature? You can find it here…

http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/

 

Hennepin County Master Gardeners
Hennepin County Master Gardener volunteers are committed to providing the highest quality, research-based horticultural information and educational activities that enhance our community's environment and quality of life.

http://www.hcmg.umn.edu/

 

localicious Radio

Localicious Radio Show
Localicious is a podcast radio show focusing on the local food movement in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas.

http://www.localiciousradio.com
Yards to Gardens has partnered with the city of Minneapolis to help fight climate change by promoting the MN Energy Challenge. Everyone knows that gardening is healthy, nurturing, educational and can save you money when you grow your food at home. But few people realize that gardening can actually help fight global warming in two ways:
#1 Gardening produces far more biomass than lawns thereby sequestering more carbon in the soil than regular grass.
#2 The average plate of food travels 1500 miles from farm to fork and uses 10 calories of fossil fuel for every one calorie of food produced. By growing food at home you help to reduce the amount of carbon emissions created by this wasteful global food system.

Take the energy challenge, and make sure to list your Energy Challenge Team as "Yards to Gardens." For more ways to prevent Global Warming click here to take the MN Energy Challenge!
coming soon: Garden Calculator
coming soon: Garden Calculator the garden calculator will let you enter the square footage of your vegetable garden and then tell you how much money you save and how many pounds of carbon are reduced.