By Amy Anderson, Sunset editorial intern

Even if the only green space you have at your home is a window box, you can still be a gardener. And that's exactly what Ben Fairfield and Jared Lyda want you--and 100,000 of your closest friends--to be.

Ben and Jared started The Urban Garden Project as a way to get people to embrace growing produce as a money saver, a form of self-reliance, a way to eat healthier, and a history lesson. Think the Victory Gardens of the WWII era. Their goal? The creation of 100,000 urban gardens by 2020.

If you don't know where to start your veggie growing or animal raising, The Urban Garden Project provides how-to videos on frontyard gardening, building a chicken coop, container gardening and more.

Feel a calling to start growing and help the project reach its 100,000 garden goal? Just sign up online and they'll put you down as a urban gardener. And don't forget to check out the current list of participants (82 and counting) and their pictures and blogs for inspiration. Then keep up with the web site for gardening resources and feeback from other urban growers. And take a look at Sunset's One-Block Diet blog to see how our urban garden is growing.

Maybe we'll trade tips on raising chickens with these guys--just like in our backyard, they'll be getting chickens too!