If you've got a backyard to plant but don't have the green thumb to do it, a pair of Calgary entrepreneurs might have a proposition for you. Rod Olson and Chad Kile borrow small plots of urban land, grow vegetables on it, sell the produce to markets and restaurants and share the bounty with the landowners.
"There's a lot of interest," said Olson, who co-owns Leaf and Lyre Urban Farms with Kile. "People really love the idea. Now we're just trying to turn a little bit of that moral support into acreage."
Their business is modelled on the concept of small-plot intensive farming, or "SPIN farming", which began in Saskatoon but has caught on in Vancouver and in parts of the U.S., Olson said.
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