Specialties
We provide a specialized backyard edible landscaping service. Thats right. All edible
We strive to go beyond organic and provide our customers with the knowledge and tools they need to sustain themselves and protect the earth for the next 7 generations. Our approach to gardening focuses on the a deeper connection with the earth and cultivation of community from the roots up. We practice methods from ancient Brazil, China and the Native Americans and combine them with the urbanized modern techniques to give you a low maintenance, high yields in small spaces.
We Start Gardens that will:
* Provide your family and neighbors with delicious organic food,
* Improve the quality of air by sequestering carbon
* Reduce your carbon foot print
* Recycle your green waste back into to earth instead of the dump
* Restore our ecosystem and attract beneficial bugs
* Preserve native edible and medicinal plants
Other specialties: Water conservation, composting, perennial herbs, recycled materials, etc
History
Established in 2014.
We Start Gardens history begins with a vision of the future. Movements such as Grow Food Not Lawns, NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), Food Justice and organic certification have brought awareness to the world over that our food system is broken. We are a small bandage helping one family at a time. We Start Gardens is a response to our future children whom will face diabetes, heat disease and then famine if we don't start teaching them to grow and eat healthier foods. We look forward to seeing our soldiers come home to peace of mind, and our parents who need something positive to do. Our history lies in our future and we want you to make history with us.
Meet the Business Owner: Derek B.
Graduated in 2011 with an Advertising Degree at the University of Hartford, I came back to Santa Clara County to work at an Social Media company geared toward artists. To pay my debt of gratitude to my mother, I decided to restore her backyard garden. I found the garden work to be a great work out and stress reliever and got hooked. Come harvest time, I started sharing with co-workers and neighbors whom asked for me to start gardens at their homes. My passion to help people and my long desire for entrepreneurship had come together in the form of tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini.. you get it. Once my gardening mentor, Patrick, jumped on board, the rest is history.
