My Farm is a San Francisco start-up putting a new twist on the home garden. Plenty of city-dwellers want to plant a garden and grow their own produce. For any number of reasons, it may not be practical to do it on your own, though, and My Farm provides solutions.

My Farm comes to your home and plants a plot of your choosing. They cultivate areas of land as small as 4 feet by 4 feet up to an entire yard. All you have to do is stay out of their way. It isn’t a free operation, but because most yards can grow more produce than a family will actually consume, My Farm offers a discount for gardening plots that will add produce to their CSA-style produce sales.

This company bills itself as a decentralized urban farm, but it focuses a little more on providing a service to homeowners. And it’s a great service: homeowners no longer have to pay to maintain grass or other parts of their yard. Instead, they pay for food that they can literally see growing — no worries about the distance food travels or the pesticides that they are sprayed with. If My Farm decides to open up an East Coast branch, I’ll be the first in line to sign up.

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