Huh. Interesting.
I'm a huge fan of local and sustainable food efforts, which is a big part of why I signed up for a CSA in the first place, but this is taking it to a whole new level. I like.
I can see this "pay someone to garden your plot" idea being especially helpful for restaurants.
Brief excerpt:
In Lincolnshire, another farm has, since January, been taking provenance to extremes online. At i-Grow, Harry Loweth, 26, who farms with his family at Abbey Parks Farm near East Heckington, had the riveting idea of dividing ground into six-metre-square allotments for hands-off vegetable-growers.
From £125 a year, clean-fingered customers choose their vegetables or herbs and Harry will then grow them organically, harvest them and even deliver them to their door.
“It appeals to time-poor city-dwellers with no gardens, to schools who want to teach children where their food comes from, to restaurant chefs who want a reliable supply and to senior gardeners who can’t manage anymore,” he says.
“They’re not a virtual concept, they’re real and so far, we’ve sold 42 plots. You can even arrange to come and visit or you can watch how your crops are performing on the website.”
Source: Food Provenance (Telegraph)
And another (equally as interesting) article with more detail on Harry Loweth's farm + other creative ventures from UK farmers:
The Trend: Click Your Own (FT)
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