HYPERLOCAL FOOD IN YOUR POCKET

Every block is already a farm.

The More You Grow is a hyperlocal food system in your pocket. Find the seed library two streets over. Buy tomatoes from the gardener three doors down. Learn to grow your first bed from yogurt tubs and ten dollars in supplies. Every plot, porch sale, and seed swap stitches the block into a food system that doesn't depend on a 1,500-mile truck.

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FREE · NO ADS · MADE IN PORTLAND
Seed libraries near you
SE 32ND · 0.3 MI
Hawthorne Porch Library
Open 24/7 — tomato, kale, dill, four kinds of lettuce, a jar of sunflower heads.
TODAY · NW PORTLAND
On your block today
Cherokee Purple
2.4 lb · still warm
Maya · 0.3 mi
$11
Padrón peppers
1 pint · for blistering
Jules · 0.5 mi
$6
Genovese basil
big handful · cut today
Beth · 0.6 mi
$4
Sungold starts
4-inch pots · 6 left
Tomás · 0.2 mi
$3 ea
Map
Today
Learn
You
A MORE ACCESSIBLE, MORE RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEM

PDX has spent thirty years building one of the country's densest food-resilience networks. Most of it lives on flyers and word of mouth.

TMYG is built around salvaged containers, kitchen-scrap fertilizers, free seeds, and the neighbors three doors down who've been growing food for thirty years. It works on a windowsill, a balcony, or a backyard. And every plot, every porch sale, every seed swap stitches the block into a food system that doesn't depend on a 1,500-mile truck.

$0
to start growing
7
chapters · zero jargon
15
seed libraries mapped in PDX
1
app · iOS & Android
Seed libraries near you
SE 32ND · 0.3 MI
Hawthorne Porch Library
Open 24/7 — tomato, kale, dill, four kinds of lettuce, a jar of sunflower heads.
ON YOUR BLOCK

The network already exists.

Seed libraries on porches. Community gardens behind churches. Free fridges outside coffee shops. Portland's food-resilience infrastructure has been here for decades, but most of it lives on flyers, neighborhood Slacks, and word of mouth. TMYG starts with the seed-library layer — every porch library across the metro, on the map, with hours and what's stocked. Community gardens, free fridges, and gardener pins are next.

  • Seed libraries near you — every porch library across the metro, with hours and what's stocked
  • Identity-verified on both sides — buyer and seller both pass Stripe Identity before money moves
  • Coming next: community gardens & free fridges — the mutual-aid layer most apps ignore
  • Privacy-respecting maps — admin heatmaps are k-anonymized so small groups can't be re-identified
GET INTO GARDENING
Seven chapters, in order
Yogurt tubs. Kitchen scraps. Free seeds from the porch library down the block.
01
Seeds
02
Soil
03
Containers
04
Water
05
Feed
06
Defend
07
Season
NEXT UP · WHAT TO PLANT THIS WEEK
ACCESSIBLE BY DESIGN

Start growing, with what you have.

A curriculum built around what you already have — yogurt tubs, kitchen scraps, salvaged 5-gallon buckets, free seeds from the library two blocks over. Seven chapters, in order. The first bed is the highest barrier; we put it on a windowsill for ten dollars.

  • Seven chapters, in order — seeds → soil → containers → water → feed → defend → season
  • Planting recommender — what to plant this week, for your block
  • Curated events shelf — plant sales, swaps, and workshops surfaced on the Grow and Learn tabs
  • Built around what's free — yogurt tubs, kitchen scraps, salvaged 5-gallon buckets, free seeds from the porch library down the block
MAYA · SUNNYSIDE · 0.4 MI
Cherokee Purple tomatoes
2.4 lb on the vine this morning — heirloom, soft-shouldered, doesn't ship well. Eat by Sunday.
2.4 LB · $4.60/LB
$11.04
+$0.88
SERVICE FEE
Reserve · pick up on Maya's porch
NEIGHBOR-TO-NEIGHBOR

Sell what you grow. Buy what you don't.

Tomatoes still warm from the vine. Plant starts in 4-inch pots. Surplus from the gardener three doors down — before it ends up in the compost. Gardeners set their own prices, pick their own delivery zones, and keep 100% of delivery fees. The platform takes 8% from each side — published here, not buried in a help-center footnote.

  • Produce and plant starts, today — raw produce and 4-inch starts; eggs, honey, and jams when cottage-food categories ship
  • Gardener self-fulfillment — porch pickup or short e-bike runs, no gig workers
  • Identity-verified on both sides — Stripe Identity, required for buyers and sellers before money moves
  • Payment held until pickup — manual-capture PaymentIntents; the card isn't charged until the handoff
HOW FEES WORK · 2026
Where the dollar goes.
A $12 order of tomatoes from a neighbor 0.4 mi away.
84% GARDENER
$10.08 TO MAYA$0.96 · $0.96
Listing price$12.00
Gardener commission · 8%−$0.96
Payout to Maya$11.04
Service fee · 8% (buyer)+$0.96
Gardeners set delivery fees and keep them in full. No platform cut.
BUILT DIFFERENT, ON PURPOSE

Built like a public utility, not a platform.

TMYG is built for the long arc, not the quarterly arc. No ads. No data resold. No algorithm ranking the home feed. Just the people growing food on your block, the surplus they've got this week, and the network that's been there all along.

  • No ads, no third-party data sharing — the business model is the marketplace, not your attention
  • Transparent fees — 8% on each side; this page is where they're published until the in-app help center ships
  • Gardeners keep 100% of delivery fees — set your zone, set your fee — none of it routes through us
  • Composed feed, not ranked — proximity-first, no engagement signal; nothing learns what to push at you
  • Privacy-preserving heatmaps — even our internal admin maps suppress any geographic cell with fewer than five gardeners
THE MORE YOU GROW

Put your block in your pocket.

Free to use, no ads, no data resold. Built in Portland by people growing food on their own blocks — every dollar moves between you and a gardener on your block, not the produce aisle. Available now for iOS and Android.

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