What do you think of this business? Organic Acres

[OneGrassRoot]

I just got this via email:

"Lease and have access to your own 240 or 120 sq ft Organic
Garden from the comfort of your own living room through the magic
of the computer. Tell your own personal gardener what favorite
products you wish to plant. Have an expert gardener assigned to
till, plant, hoe, and harvest your crops for you. Then choose to
sell all or a portion of your crops in their farmers market, have
your crops shipped directly to your house for dinner or give all
or a portion of your crops to feed the hungry. All of this is handled
for you by the expert staff at Organic Acres. All of your crops will
use only products certified as organic by the USDA and all of your
crops are guaranteed."

http://myorganicacres.com/index.php?page=oa&theme=1

At first glance, it seems some of their price tiers are WAY above my means, and probably most of us, but if one had the funds, I wonder if this would be a good thing? I've never seen a setup like this, so I'm wondering what others think.

:hi:

[HopeHoops]

1. I've got about 300 sq. ft. of organic garden space in my yard.

This sounds like a well-intended but doomed venture.

[Warpy]

2. It's a feel good project for lazy people with more money than brains

who like the idea of an organic garden but don't want to disturb the lawns in back of the pool because it will spoil the view. They'll make back maybe twenty cents on the dollar they "invest" if they're lucky, but they'll have the warm, fuzzy feeling of taking care of the planet.

I'm all for it for the population described above, in other words.

The rest of us need to go out in the backyard and start digging. It's a more practical way to accomplish the same thing.

[kestrel91316]

3. Well, SOME of us don't have backyards. Or front yards either, for that matter......

[kestrel91316]

4. Well, SOME of us don't have backyards. Or front yards either, for that matter......

[kestrel91316]

5. Well, SOME of us don't have backyards. Or front yards either, for that matter......

[Warpy]

6. The Hanging Gardens of Jamaica Plain

was what I called a triple decker porch of a neighbor. He grew peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, herbs, and things I couldn't identify from the street on the third floor of a wooden tenement building. It was a truly impressive urban garden.

I also knew people who did modest gardening at south facing windows. I grew kitchen herbs that way. I saw people planting lettuce in window boxes among the petunias.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

[Raineyb]

7. Some of us don't have porches either.

And you aren't allowed to put things on fire escapes.

[Warpy]

8. Grow lites

Like I said, where there is the will to have fresh, organically grown veg, there is a way.

[kestrel91316]

9. I have a NW-facing balcony is all, that is in full shade for 8 months out of

the year, and the other 4 months it's about 145F out there, lol.