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Hyperlocavore Website

Hyperlocavore, a ''free yard sharing community,'' is a social network site that wants to see ''healthy kids who love the smell of dirt, blocks with foreclosed homes becoming vibrant neighborhoods, plates full of delicious safe food at costs we can all afford, and neighbors who become real friends.''

A hyperlocavore is a person who tries to eat as much food as locally as possible. Yard sharing is an arrangement between people to share skills and gardening resources; space, time, strength, tools or skills, in order to grow food as locally as possible, to make neighborhoods resilient, kids healthy and food much cheaper.

Yard sharing is a way to connect people who love to garden, people who love healthy fresh food and people who have yards. Often people who have yards have little time time for a vegetable garden. And sometimes gardeners have trouble finding soil to garden in because they rent an apartment. Sometimes older people lack stamina and are socially isolated, finding younger people to partner in growing food together works wonderfully for all.

Read more at the resource link below.

Resource: http://hyperlocavore.ning.com/

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