Residential Garden Maintenance Plans

Basic Garden Maintenance

$130/month

  • Bi-weekly garden visits (2x a month)
  • Visits are not at a set time
  • GCG will harvest for you (unless you don’t want us to)
  • Optional purchases for success: Our maintenance tool kit*, and How-to Book
  • Our standard follow-up email with a list of work done, every visit

Farmer-in-Training

$180/month

  • Bi-weekly garden visits (2x a month)
  • 1 hour of hands-on gardening work with each visit
  • Visits are scheduled for a time you and your family are available to work in the garden with us
  • GCG will teach you how to harvest, and give homework assignments to keep you or your kids engaged in the garden during the off-weeks
  • Recommended purchases for success: Our maintenance tool kit*, and How-to Book
  • Our standard follow-up email with a list of work done, every visit

Urban Garden Consulting

Recommended for small gardens and the DIY-inclined

$65/hr

Consulting rate to work with you in your garden and cover the information you’d like to focus on

  • Recommended purchases for success: Our maintenance tool kit* and How-to Book
  • Materials, such as plants and compost, will be additional costs (we charge for these items at-cost).
  • We recommend this program to be structured as a monthly visit, though it is not required.
  • There is a $25 per visit fee to cover travel and materials prep, 1 hour minimum charge.

*Maintenance tool kit includes: Organic Pest and fungal management sprays and recipes, Compost tea bags, trellising materials, organic fertilizer, hand tools, snips, and garden gloves

Other Details

  • *Maintenance rates will not vary depending on size of your garden. The rates are based off materials for up to a 4′x12′ (48sqft) garden bed. There will be an additional materials fee of $5/month per each additional 4′x4′ (16sqft) for sites larger than 4′x12′, to cover the additional plants and seeds. Gardens larger than 4 4’x8’ beds (128sqft) are subject to custom maintenance plans and pricing.
  • *Those located outside of the RT 128 belt will be subject to an additional $15/month for travel costs.
  • *For the Basic and Farmer-in-Training programs, we require a commitment to the whole season. With cold frames, the season will be from March 1st-December 1st. Without Cold Frames, the season will be from April 1st-November 1st. There will be a cancellation charge of one month’s maintenance if you decide to break from the commitment at any point during the season.
  • There is an added cost for Spring Set up and Winter take-down each year. This pre-planting set up costs $75 plus materials (Typically in mid-march/beginning of April for non-cold frame equipped raised-beds) This visits includes adding compost, soil amendments, cleaning out the bed, re-installing or taking down or timers and blowing out the irrigation, and setting up or removing trellising and critter fencing.
With GCG's help, our children now know where their food comes from.
--Quentin, Wellesley MA.
i want my kid to learn how to grow vegetables!
  

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Events on May 30, 2013
  • Cadbury Commons Mind and Body Wellness Fair (and Farmers Market too)

    Starts: 9:30 am

    Ends: May 30, 2013 - 1:30 pm

    Location: Independent & Assisted Living Residence at 66 Sherman Street, Cambridge

    Description: Cadbury Commons is excited to announce they will be hosting their fourth annual Mind and Body Wellness Fair on Thursday, May 30th at their Independent & Assisted Living Residence at 66 Sherman Street, Cambridge.
    Come check out the exhibits and learn about the valuable services and/or products different businesses provide. Also shop at the Farmers Market! Local farmers will sell their homegrown and homemade products at the fair.

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