Seattle Urban Farm Company

If you live in the Seattle area, and you’ve been interested in utilizing your yard, front or back, for rearing a bumper crop of cucumbers or such, but your green thumb is browner than humanure, you’re in luck: The Seattle Urban Farm Company will come and garden for you.

If you’re a more hands-on sort but need direction on what to plant, and when, SUFCo’s owner, Colin McCrate offers instruction and welcomes your involvement in your little victory garden. If you’re too busy, or too lazy, that’s fine too: They’ll handle everything for you, including building your garden beds, planting the seeds, and maintaining your plants as they bubble up out of the soil. SUFCo promises to provide your household with fresh seasonal vegetables and herbs every week.

One of the SUFCo’s strongest selling features beyond being able to produce fresh vegetables on your own property is that they have an extremely stringent organic policy; while they do have a USDA organic certification, they are confident that their confident that practices are superior to those of the Organic and environmental stipulations necessary for the accreditation.

My guess is that apartment dwellers are SOL on this score; you’d have to be able to have one hell of a window box to make it worthwhile. Otherwise, you’re on your own. Fortunately for you, there are still plenty of great farmer’s markets in the Seattle area where you can score good organic produce.

Out with the lawn, in with edibles [seattlepi.nwsource.com]

Seattle Urban Farm Company [seattleurbanfarmco.com]