15Thousand Farmers
Planting a Seed to Feed Ourselves
Louisville, KY
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Growing community through

neighborhood-based, organic farming

The Vision:

15Thousand Farmers helps create, empower, and inspire 15,000 new, organic, neighborhood backyard/front yard farmers in Louisville, KY to feed their families and themselves and to give away! 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.

CLICK HERE to Sign Up for your Dirt Card and be counted as 1 of 15Thousand Farmers! (Southern Indiana you are welcome, too!) Get discounts at selected partner locations.


"15th Day" at Fresh Start Growers' Supply Thurs. July 15, 6:00-8:00 pm - come celebrate, get some information, meet some folks, see some friends, eat some great food from Farm To Fork, Heine Brothers' Coffee and more. Click here for more info

Join 15Thousand Farmers Facebook group! click here

"The Very Very Basics: Growing 101" workshops click here

Leo article "Farming is Sexy" on 15Thousand Famers

News!  15Thousand Farmers article on ImpactDash.com


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!!!