Food production revives beauty and bounty in San Francisco’s backyards

It doesn’t take much land to grow enough food for one family, as even San Francisco city-dwellers are discovering, with a little help from local enterprise MyFarm. Owner Trevor Paque calls the cluster of backyards key to the production of MyFarm’s local and organic food a “decentralized urban farm.” Even a 4’ x 4’ backyard can yield enough food for one family, he finds, with extra space going to produce food for his CSA.

For an initial fee and smaller weekly payments, member families can eat about as local as it gets, and find worlds of difference in taste and community connections. The Rodale Institute’s Dan Sullivan calls it “revolutionary, really one of the coolest things I’ve heard in a long time.” Full Story: USA Today