Winter Crops are available through our Community Supported Plant Starts Program.

CSPS supports NEW and SEASONED gardeners grow more food year round with seasonally appropriate plant-starts.Pick up spots at convenient neighborhood locations. We are excited to announce:

1. A FRUIT TREE PLANTED FOR YOUR LOVED ONE We will plant a fruit tree in your loved one’s yard this [...]]]> Our beautifully designed-gift certificates and the promise within will delight your loved ones on the holidays. Have a hand-written gift card and gift certificate sent right away–no waiting! Three kinds of gift certificates:

1. A FRUIT TREE PLANTED FOR YOUR LOVED ONE We will plant a fruit tree in your loved one’s yard this winter (Jan/Feb). Our gift certificate includes the fruit tree, planting, compost, micronutrients, and a care guide for your new friend.   Trees Available: Apple, Fig, Pear, and Plum.  Tree Size: 2-3 year old trees with DWARF (6-8’ tall at maturity) & SEMI-DWARF (10-15’) rootstocks. COST is $75 for the first tree and $50 for each additional tree.  (additional surcharges for delivery outside of Seattle will apply) Purchase now!

2. VEGGIE STARTS FOR THE YEAR. A year’s share of Community Supported Plant Starts. We will deliver a flat of ready-to-plant edible seedlings to a convenient neighborhood pick up location each season (March-September).   Cost is $140 for four successions (flats) of crops. Purchase now!

3. Landscape Consultation or Garden Coaching. We will help develop your loved one’s edible paradise with a one-time consultation, or have us over every season for a year to help!  Cost is $250 for the 2 hour consultation, resource book, and report. Purchase now!

About Sod Cutting Spree is:

1. PLANT A FRUIT TREE We will come to your loved ones’s place to plant a fruit tree in the winter January/February are the best times for the tree.  We will bring the tree, compost, and micronutrients, as well as a care guide for [...]]]> Give the gift that keeps on Giving ! We have 3 ideas:

1. PLANT A FRUIT TREE We will come to your loved ones’s place to plant a fruit tree in the winter January/February are the best times for the tree.  We will bring the tree, compost, and micronutrients, as well as a care guide for your new friend.    **Our beautifully designed gift certificate and the promise within will delight your loved one(s) on the holidays.

Types of Trees Available: Apple, Pear, Cherry, and Plum.  All varieties will be chose for their hardiness on West (wet) side of the Cascades, and will be announced by November 15th.  Tree Size: We will have 2-3 year old trees with DWARF (4-8’ tall at maturity) & SEMI-DWARF (10-15’) rootstocks available.

COST is $65 for the first tree and $45 for each additional tree.

2. VEGGIE STARTS FOR THE YEAR.  Grow more food by Pre-ordering a share of Community Supported Plant Starts and have flats of ready-to-plant seedlings arrive in your community throughout the growing season (March-September). 

Cost is $130 for four sucessions (flats) of crops.

3.  BUILD YOUR DREAM EDIBLE LANDSCAPE. This could be simple veggie boxes or an entire landscape complete with trees, shrubs, planter boxes, herbs spirals, and medicine wheels.  Cost is $500 on up. 

CONTACT US for more information or to RESERVE YOUR TREE, CSPS Share, or Edible Landscape Project

We build Fall gardens, so you can get the most from the earth throughout the winter. Our Community Supported Plant Starts program is of great value to first time and long time gardeners, and is a sustainable way [...]]]>

Jake Harris and Michael Seliga, in the Seattle Times article on parking strips. July 25th 2009

We build Fall gardens, so you can get the most from the earth throughout the winter. Our Community Supported Plant Starts program is of great value to first time and long time gardeners, and is a sustainable way to cultivate urban farmers.

We Build gardens in the Parking Strip Check out our mention in the Seattle Times!

Farming sustainably in the city is about using every inch of every space that is available. Contact us and we can help you use that space more effectively including shade gardens and parking strips. You can have a beauti-full and bounti- full garden.

Hello! Here are CELs’ Goals for 2009.

1. Focus on creating Community Scale Edible Landscapes, aka “Garden Nodes” AND teach classes in neighborhoods so people can learn in their own contexts. We are looking to move beyond individual landscape projects. Doing this will make managing projects (less admin.) and educating gardeners [...]]]>

Hello! Here are CELs’ Goals for 2009.

1. Focus on creating Community Scale Edible Landscapes, aka “Garden Nodes” AND teach classes in neighborhoods so people can learn in their own contexts. We are looking to move beyond individual landscape projects. Doing this will make managing projects (less admin.) and educating gardeners more efficient. Plus, we will be able to reduce our carbon footprint (drive around less). CEL is actively looking for community partnerships, individuals to help develop this concept, and promoters to spread the gospel.

2. Trade CEL’s work —building gardens in the community– for housing. That is, in exchange for subsidized or free rent, we will build gardens for low income individuals in the name of the sponsor. For every $500 of value in rent, we’ll provide $500 in labor (which is about enough to build 1-2 basic vegetable gardens and educate those gardeners).
3. Sustainably expand the Plant Start and Perrenial Plant sales. (A) Community Supported Plant Starts Program (30-50 members committed in February). (B) Selling at 2-3 Farmers markets in Springtime. (C) Attend Tilth Sales, WSU Master Gardeners Sale and other plant/local food events

4.Increase business to sustain three or four, ¾ time worker-partners, at living wages. Build long term partnerships with people, who share CEL’s vision.