. . . not to mention lawns!• turf grasses are the single

largest irrigated crop in the u.s. (11.8.05 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/lawn/)

• nation-wide we use 9,000,000,000 gallons of water / day for irrigation (http://www.epa.gov/watersense/pubs/outdoor.html)

• 800 million gallons of gasoline is burned / year maintaining lawns + 17 million gallons spilled from refilling! (10.8 million gallons were spilled during the exxon valdez spill!) (http://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/lawns_stats/)

- February ’14 started pilot- July ’14 received 5k grant from Healthy Central FL Foundation- January ’15 received 10k grant from 1% for the Planet - Engaged and trained over 125 volunteers- Scaling to 15 farmlettes by ’16- Over 200 inquiries from future farmlette hosts- Over $6,000 sold in produce

= PROFIT IN 1st YEAR!

Donated land

Volunteer Power

Pro-bono service

Grant funding

community

1. Start small2. Partnerships3. Multiple distribution

streams

MORE INFO, TOOLKIT AND VIDEOS AT: www.FleetFarming.com

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