the best food is grown in your own backyard

 

Home Garden Services

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Garden Consulting & Coaching

Rates starting at $150 HR

The best way to begin is with a garden consultation.  60-minute private sessions include education about each season's growing possibilities, what is needed for garden setup, and a garden design or planting layout. We’ll help you figure out what you can grow where, how to work with the Colorado seasons, and leave you with an initial garden transformation project plan. Whether you’re hoping to start with one raised bed or an entire foodscape, this is the best place to start. Separately, seasonal coaching, planting plans, as well as DIY garden designs are also available.

Modern Farmsteads provides consults along the upper Front Range as well as Zoom meetings for those outside the area.

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Raised garden beds and trellis copyright 2020

Garden Installation Service

Rates Upon request

Our garden installation service consists of a raised bed garden design, custom-built raised beds, our top quality Colorado-sourced soil complete with compost to fill the beds, seeds, and our own Colorado-grown plants.  This complete package will be designed, delivered, installed, and planted just for you.

We offer a range of garden installation raised bed solutions, starting with high-quality wooden raised beds, to expert-built brick or corten steel planters. Standard, large, or custom-designed raised beds are hand-made and will be delivered to your home. For those who do not elect turnkey service, they will arrive and be fully assembled, ready to be filled with your own soil and plants.

Our wooden raised beds are in a league of their own. Unlike big box stores that sell thin-planked, short raised beds which will warp and break down quickly in the Colorado sun and snow, we use 2” thick boards, 18” in height, which include mitered tops for a finished, refined look. They are comfortable enough to sit on while gardening and the beds are completed with multiple supports for increased strength and durability. We also offer an alternative, less-expensive option of non-toxic, pressure-treated, spruce pine raised beds. We’ve developed our own methodology of weatherproofing them to extends their lifespan to compete with cedar.

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Garden Maintenance

Rates starting at $75

Vegetable beds and most foodscapes need daily care in order to thrive. The meditative rhythm of tending to one’s garden and the fun of harvesting food, are part of the appeal of gardening. 

Some of the more involved and repetitive maintenance, however, like planting or sowing seeds, weeding, adding compost, pruning, or dealing with pests can be challenging and/or time consuming. We are here to help you maintain your garden around the seasons!

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“Christina and Jochen are a JOY to work with and learn from. They helped us create an edible landscape plan for our small space, built our raised beds by hand and installed them, taught us how to sow our seeds and care for seedlings, and taught us how to care for our new garden in each new season.

It is now our second year gardening with the lessons they passed on to us, and we’ve had such success! We feel much more knowledgeable and capable , but there’s always more to learn. The Modern Farmstead team has been on hand to help with any questions, and we’ve begun discussing plans for a cut flower garden! They are more like family at this point, and we are so grateful to have them in our lives.”

/  Jamie & Steve L. /

 
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