Backyard Agrarian

Nutrition Counseling and Food Gardens: 
Developing a good relationship with good, natural, wholesome food is the foundation of health - your health and the planet's health.  In order to make this connection more accessible, Backyard Agrarian has teamed up with eco-nutritionist Ryah Nabielski.  Ryah brings years of whole foods based nutrition counseling experience.  She will work with you to assess your nutrition needs and work through your food issues, whatever they might be. After assessing your nutrition needs, Backyard Agrarian will create an edible garden in your home to assist the work you are doing with Ryah. 

Sustainability Consulting for the Office: (summer special if booked by August 1, 2010:  $35/hour)
With over 15 years of experience working in the environmental field, and in offices of government agencies, nonprofit organizations and the private sector, we know that each office environment is unique. Maintaining a focus on your bottom line and green marketing potential, we work with you to develop money saving energy efficiency projects, waste reduction and workplace health initiatives.  Creating an eco-friendly office environment that makes sense to you, your employees and your customers is the key to success.  Hire us to assess your needs and we will take you through our process of analyses and implementation.

Sustainability Consulting for the Home and Family: ($35/hour)
With over 15 years of experience working with youth and adults to deepen their connection with nature through outdoor experiences, we now offer home and family sustainability consulting. We will come to your house and work with your family.  We look into your daily habits and practices to develop easy to implement ways to live healthier and greener.  Learn to live a more ecologically sustainability and fulfilling  lifestyle.  Learn to implement nature based sustainability practices into your every day life.  Depending on your interests, we will work with you to develop home energy efficiency projects, a workable recycling system, home composting, methods for eating healthier more organic and local foods, packing delicious and healthy lunches for your kids, obtaining buy in from your family, designing a daily yoga or meditation practice and creating the right space for you to do this in, or creating a reading list focused on sustainability related reading materials.  The list could go on and we will work with you to identify your sustainability related needs and goals.  

Weed Cloth Removal & Soil Building Package: (PREMIER PACKAGE for Summer 2010) 
($35/hour plus cost of compost - Total Cost depends on size of yard; additional charge for extensive stone removal). 

This is our premier package for Summer 2010 because we believe in it so much.  Set your garden up right for a lifetime of abundance!  As far as we know, no one else around offers anything similar. It could be argued that soil is your garden's most precious resource. If your soil is poor, it won't store water or nutrients or oxygen properly.  Poor soil leads, at best, to stunted plants. Poor soil lacks beneficial microorganisms and worms that are needed to break down organic and inorganic matter and to feed your plants properly.  It lacks beneficial fungus to nourish roots.  

In addition, weed cloth doesn't even do what it is meant to do.  Within just a year or two, enough soil has built up on top of the fabric that weeds can easily take root. Not to mention the eyesore of that ugly weed fabric poking out from around strangled trees, or between perennials. We believe there is massive opportunity to collectively free our soil and in doing so to nurture a rejuvenation of healthy ecosystems throughout our neighborhoods. 

This package includes the removal of weed cloth from your garden and the addition of compost or locally composted manure. 
To promote this new offering:  Book by August 1, 2010 and receive a 20% discount!

Gardening Classes:  ($35/hour for up to 4 people.  Larger groups price to be determined.)
Classes will be tailored to meet your specific gardening interest.  Classes for children, teens, adults, seniors and families available. 

Fruit Tree Orchards:
Water Catchment:  
Chickens:  
Home brewing and wine making:  
Composting:  

(more info coming soon)

This package is perfect for community groups who understand the benefits of having a local shared garden space but just don't know how to get it up and running.  We can assist you every step of the way or just some steps of the way!  Whatever your group needs help with, we are here for you.  Our experienced professionals can help with legal hurdles like obtaining land and water use permits, drawing up detailed proposals and grants, organizing community members, running community meetings, and scheduling and attending meetings with school and local officials. We can also work with you to build the garden.  This might include setting up the hardscape, and leading your students or members in garden lessons, soil preparation and planting. We can even assist throughout the growing season teaching your members how to tend the garden and reap its rewards. 

Irrigation installation and repair: $40/hour plus cost of supplies
Sod installation: $40/hour plus cost of supplies
Outdoor Lighting installation: $40/hour plus cost of supplies
Water features installation: $40/hour plus cost of supplies
Garden redesigns:  Design rates range from $35-$75/hour 

Neighborhood and condo associations have very strict requirements about how the landscapes in their community must be maintained.  Some don't even allow vegetable gardening!  We will contract with associations to offer eco friendly gardens maintenance to their residents.  We will even do pilot programs in the areas of edible community gardens and carbon capture neighborhoods.