Here’s a great example of a creative way to give. Giving away your front yard!

It's a unique gift that benefits both the receiver as well as the giver. This wonderful story is from www.tyee.ca, an award-winning online magazine.

"Why Urban Farming Is the Future:  And why it's good to get a little dirty while helping BC feed itself. First in a series." By David Tracey, 18 Aug 2009, TheTyee.ca.

The first odd thing about Cam Macdonald's Mt. Pleasant lawn is that it isn't a lawn. It's a farm.

Standing out amid the typical suburban sea of grass patches are his potatoes, carrots, beats, peas, shallots, squash, parsnips and more -- enough to have given food to 70 people by the beginning of July....

For full article please go to: www.thetyee.ca.