Chard Your Yard this year

Spring is calling; It’s time to think about gardening! The neighborhood volunteer-run organization, Chard Your Yard, has the garden resources to make it happen.
The gardens are provided at-cost to residents, and construction and delivery are provided by volunteers. To be eligible to receive a garden, the garden must be installed in one of the following neighborhoods: Cooper, Corcoran, Ericcson, Hiawatha, Howe, Longfellow, Seward, Standish.
A standard 3'x5'x12" raised garden bed is $70, delivered and installed. They also offer subsidized standard beds for $35, and for qualifying disabled persons, a double high 3'x5'x24" bed for $70.
Chard Your Yard sells quality soil in reusable buckets so you can augment or fill the garden beds you already have.
Install dates: Saturday, April 26 and Saturday, May 3. Online garden registration opens Friday, March 28 at noon.
Over the past 10 years, volunteers have installed approximately 340 garden beds. Volunteer signup opened in March.
Visit website ChardYourYard.com for more information and to check if your address qualifies for the delivery area.

WHY FRESH FOOD?
Fresh food from a home garden improves a family's health and a community's food resilience. That's why victory gardens were promoted in WWII and it's the same reasons Chard Your Yard promote gardens today. Add in the benefit of reducing the miles your food needs to travel (its carbon footprint) and the improved taste and nutritional value of a vine-ripened tomato, a sun-warmed strawberry or a super-sweet carrot and that's why Transition Longfellow created the Chard Your Yard program.
Chard Your Yard is the signature food-resilience project of Transition Longfellow. Chard Your Yard was launched in 2013. "We have been successful by using economies of scale to create affordable garden beds for our neighbors, providing them with a quality finished product at cost," according to information on the group's website. "We are able to complete installation by activating volunteers to do the heavy lifting, cutting and assembling beds, delivering the beds and then returning later to fill the beds. The hard work of hauling dirt and wielding cordless drills does more than build a garden, we also improve our neighbors health, and create more sustainable communities.
Chard Your Yard has received financial assistance every year from the Longfellow Community Council to make the project more affordable for at-risk neighborhood residents, low income and persons with physical disabilities.