Soon, I will be writing an article on Johnson's back yard garden. It is a community supported agricultural (CSA) farm, which means that the poeple who pick the food are volonteers and in return for their help they get a free box of delicious vegetables. I go there often because they are family friends and have yet to volonteer. Whenever I have some pictures I will update this post and add them. Anyways, here is the intersting history of Johnson's backyard garden. It satrted of in a small back yard on Holly street when the Johnson family started growing a vegetable patch that took the whole back yard and then expanded it to the front. Then they started bringing the crops to the Farmers Market and provided about 30 families with vegetables weekly. In 2006 they bought 20 acres just outside of Austin (you can actually see the Frost bank form there) and enlargened their farm. now they have 70 acres and over 1,000 Austinites enjoy their freshly harvested egetables and herbs. So if you are a really amazing person, and love delicious vegetables, eggs, and fair trade coffee, you should totally check out their website (which by the way, is pretty amazing) for information on volonteering and for subscription to their weekly boxes of vegetables. (This is their website: http://www.jbgorganic.com/about/)
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