Growing
community through
neighborhood-based, organic farming
The
Vision:
How? By using
simple and easy instructions, checklists and materials and ongoing support
provided through local growers and resources that will provide
everything needed to start Easy Farms in our yards, on decks or in community
gardens.What
is an Easy Farm?
Everything you need to know to start growing a simple
and easy food, herb and flower garden in your yard. We’ll provide
everything you need to become an organic backyard farmer – diagrams,
instructions and checklists for creating a 4' x 4' Easy Farm.
You’ll learn what to plant and where, when to plant, how to keep the garden growing all year long, we’ll supply you with instructions on how to create simple and easy compost piles in your backyard to keep the nutrients abounding in your garden and how to save seeds after the growing season to prepare for the next Spring.
Thank you to our Founding Sponsor!

What
will 15,000 organic farmers mean to us here in Louisville?
• We’ll learn we can plant a seed and feed ourselves!
• And
as we grow our Easy Farms, we can grow the community in our neighborhoods. We
can meet our neighbors around a common interest – sharing growing secrets,
trading special vegetables or herbs and seeds!
• We take back our power of choice! As we grow our own food, we begin to realize we have a choice to take charge of things we hold dear – abundant, inexpensive, delicious, nutritious organic food, sharing it with friends, saving money we usually spend at the grocery, reconnect with nature just outside our back door, making new friends in our neighborhood with a common interest, helping transform this community and the world.
• As we grow our food locally, we reduce our dependence on foreign oil as we buy less stuff that has been shipped in by truck, train or plane from distant states or countries.
• Organic farming sequesters carbon faster than any other current technology. So as we plant and grow our food, we powerfully affect climate change.
• Growing our own food in the neighborhood is fun and anyone can do it, from age three to 103!!!
