A farm in your yard

Eliza Toomey wants to be a farmer.

She wants to grow healthy, local, organic vegetables for her community.

The trouble is, her Annapolis townhome has a small yard.

So she's come up with an interesting idea to help make her dream come true. Ms. Toomey, a teacher, is launching Murray Hill Row-by-Row, a program in which neighbors give up part of their yards and pay a small fee. Ms. Toomey in turn will grow vegetables on plots throughout the neighborhood and share the bounty with participants.

It's like a community-supported agriculture program where participants pay a weekly fee to a full-fledged farmer. Ms....