Landshare: Connecting Growers Through the Internet

Landshare.net is a nonprofit website that allows people who want to grow their own vegetables but do not have land.  They are able to make and agreement with others who have extra land and use it to grow their food.  The site allows for easy matching by searching for available landowners, growers, or helpers who best match you wants and/or requirements or by allowing the person to look at a map with the availible landowners, growers and helpers.  They, the site also allows for easy contact between people by providing a message center and tools to create a contract.

All the user is reqired to do is create an account and provide information that will help match you with what you are looking for.

Also, Landshare has just recently created an iPhone app that allows you to access Landshare on the go.

This site was founded by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in Dorset, UK.  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a celebrity chef who came up with the idea after helping families plant crops on some derelict land.

So far, there are 59323 members of the site.

For more information, click here to go the the Landshare website.

To see the TED Talk that inspired this research, click here.