A Productive Vegetable Garden
-without the work-
Wilson Home Farms designs, plants, and manages personal, backyard vegetable gardens. You enjoy fresh organically grown produce.
A Different Way to Garden
Many people dream of having a productive vegetable garden at home. Fresh tomatoes, crisp lettuce, and herbs just steps from the kitchen.
Successful gardens require planning, soil management, pest control, and regular attention throughout the growing season.
Wilson Home Farms provides professional garden stewardship. Instead of managing the garden yourself, we design and maintain the garden using a farm-style growing system.
You enjoy the harvest.
Successful gardens require planning, soil management, pest control, and regular attention throughout the growing season.
Wilson Home Farms provides professional garden stewardship. Instead of managing the garden yourself, we design and maintain the garden using a farm-style growing system.
You enjoy the harvest.
|
|
How the Program Works
1. Choose Your Vegetables
Clients begin by completing the Vegetable Preferences Checklist. This simple form allows you to select the exact crops you enjoy.
2. We Design Your Garden Plan
Your selections are used to create a seasonal Field Plan. This planning system determines when each crop will be planted, where it will grow in the garden and when it will be harvested.
3. We Manage the Garden
Wilson Home Farms visits the garden regularly through the growing season to plant crops, manage soil fertility, monitor pets, and maintain the garden's productivity.
You simply harvest the fresh food from your backyard farm.
Clients begin by completing the Vegetable Preferences Checklist. This simple form allows you to select the exact crops you enjoy.
2. We Design Your Garden Plan
Your selections are used to create a seasonal Field Plan. This planning system determines when each crop will be planted, where it will grow in the garden and when it will be harvested.
3. We Manage the Garden
Wilson Home Farms visits the garden regularly through the growing season to plant crops, manage soil fertility, monitor pets, and maintain the garden's productivity.
You simply harvest the fresh food from your backyard farm.
|
A 300 sq ft garden growing:
|
What is Included?
Annual Stewardship provides full-season management of a productive vegetable garden.
Services include:
Each garden is managed according to a seasonal planting system designed to keep food growing from April to November.
Services include:
- Seasonal Crop Planning
- Soil Preparation, Organic Fertilizer and Compost Additions
- Planting
- Weeding and Garden Maintenance
- Organic Pest and Disease Control
- Harvesting Guidance
- Autumn Cover Crop Planting
Each garden is managed according to a seasonal planting system designed to keep food growing from April to November.
|
A 315 sq ft vegetable garden growing:
|
The Growing Season
The Garden Management season runs from April to November. Wilson Home Farms make trips every other week throughout the growing season to maintain productivity.
Trips might include:
Trips might include:
- Bed preparation for planting
- Planting new crops
- Removing spent crops
- Pruning and training crops like Tomatoes and Cucumbers
- Fertilizing the soil with organic nutrients
- Controlling pests, organically
|
A 96 sq ft garden growing:
|
Garden Requirements
To ensure successful harvests, gardens must meet a few basic requirements.
Managed gardens should have:
If infrastructure such as irrigation, fencing, raised beds, or paths are needed, Wilson Home Farms can install these systems.
Managed gardens should have:
- At least six hours of direct sunlight, eight to ten hours is preferred
- Space for a properly sized garden
- Irrigation access
- Fencing
If infrastructure such as irrigation, fencing, raised beds, or paths are needed, Wilson Home Farms can install these systems.
|
A 192 sq ft garden in spring growing:
|
Pricing
The starting price for Annual Stewardship is based on the square footage of the garden and the type of garden: raised bed or in-soil. The square footage is the growing space, not the total space.
Garden Size |
Raised Bed |
In-ground |
0-100 sq ft |
$5.45 |
$5.55 |
101-200 sq ft |
$5.15 |
$5.25 |
201- 350 sq ft |
$4.60 |
$4.70 |
350 + sq ft |
$4.10 |
$4.20 |
Gardens with mulched paths add $0.10 / sq ft to the base fee. (Stone paths are free)
Gardens over 50' from the parking spot add $0.15 to the base fee.
Gardens over 100' from the parking spot add $0.25 to the base fee.
In order to keep the base price for Annual Stewardship standardized regardless of location, a trip fee for the season is added to the base price depending on proximity to the Wilson Home Farms headquarters. Clients in the heart of State College pay about $20/ trip. Clients in the outskirts pay about $35/ trip.
The total amount is divided into eight payments over the season.
Gardens over 50' from the parking spot add $0.15 to the base fee.
Gardens over 100' from the parking spot add $0.25 to the base fee.
In order to keep the base price for Annual Stewardship standardized regardless of location, a trip fee for the season is added to the base price depending on proximity to the Wilson Home Farms headquarters. Clients in the heart of State College pay about $20/ trip. Clients in the outskirts pay about $35/ trip.
The total amount is divided into eight payments over the season.
Start Your Garden Plan!
The first step toward a professionally managed garden is completing the Vegetable Preferences Checklist.
This form helps determine the crops you would like grown and allows Wilson Home Farms to begin designing your seasonal garden plan as well expected yield and garden value.
This form helps determine the crops you would like grown and allows Wilson Home Farms to begin designing your seasonal garden plan as well expected yield and garden value.