Pasco County front-yard farm represents a growing trend in urban agriculture
Rising grocery prices and food supply issues brought on by the pandemic in 2020 have motivated some people to grow their own food.
By Daylina Miller
WUSF
Dec 15, 2025
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But Johnson said he wasn’t feeling fulfilled. So he packed up and spent some time at a Buddhist monastery in the Catskill Mountains in southeastern New York.
“There was a head gardener there who grew a lot of the food for the folks in the monastery. And I really just loved that experience,” Johnson said. “So I kind of got into farming under this, like, romantic lens.”
Eventually, he worked on his brother’s farm in Groveland before purchasing the two properties in New Port Richey from Jim Kovaleski, a snowbird from Maine who previously ran “Freedom House Farm” there.
In the front yard, collard greens, kale, chard, radishes and so much more pop through the black “geotextile” fabric used to help keep weeds at bay.
Kovaleski only grew food there for half the year. That’s changed under Johnson’s lead.
“We’re able to crank out food year-round,” Johnson said. “First of all, that means more community resiliency, because this farm was just empty, full of sweet potatoes for five months of the year, whereas now it’s just a constant rotation.”
In the backyard next to a chicken coop, Benjamin Stonys, one of two full-time farmers employed by Johnson, can be seen packing trays with a specially blended soil that’s made at the farm.
Source: https://cityfarmer.info/pasco-county-front-yard-farm-represents-a-growing-trend-in-urban-agriculture/
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