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Urban Plantations is now...
Same ownership and expert team, updated name!
We look forward to serving you as California Farm and Garden.
Same ownership and expert team, updated name!
We look forward to serving you as California Farm and Garden.
Farmer Dean just checked off a 4th year on our ...
Jul 22
Farmer Dean just checked off a 4th year on our team! In these four years, Dean has helped build more than NINETY new residential, restaurant, corporate, and rooftop gardens. Our install team can always count on "Papa Squanch" during our builds (except for that one time he hurt his finger, that was a real bummer). Dean - you make the world a better place, one garden at a time! 🌎 🍇 🍓 🍊
Hey know where you can see this crazy fuzzy pollen...
Jul 21
Hey know where you can see this crazy fuzzy pollen buddy? Every single day in your summer home garden. 🤯💥 Grow where you live, so pollen pants can happen. 🌻 🐝
It's #tomatotuesday 🔥 Oven on 425 - coat #homegrowncherrytomatoes in EVOO, salt, and pepper. On parchment, roast for 35-45 minutes until the aroma of gooey charred tomatoes is all you can think about. Transfer to a pot, burst tomatoes with a wooden spoon 🥄 then add minced garlic. Simmer until aromatic. End with a splash of balsamic and a pat of butter. Melt, stir, spread on everything. 🌱 🍅 🍅🍅 🤤
How many passion fruit can you see in this photo? ...
Jul 8
How many passion fruit can you see in this photo? Funny thing is, this is about one TENTH of the passion fruit wall at one of our #corporatefarms. Often spotted at more than $5 a pop at farmers markets and boutique grocers, don't you think it would be a wise investment to add a vine to your #backyardediblegarden?
What's everyone doing with their #holidayweekend kitchen scraps? Did you know that in January 2022 (that's in 6 months 😬), California will be issuing new #compostingguidelines for all residential households? Raise your hand if you're already #composting at home 👋 , and call us if you need help! 🪱
Welp, this week's a wrap! CA Farm & Garden gathered this insane haul yesterday in the #backyardgarden of one of our favorite clients. You guys harvesting #freshproduce for your holiday weekend celebrations? #Shishitos, green beans, onions, summer squash #fromgardentogrill 🔥 | 📸 by Farmer Zach
When your #urbanfarmers are even radder than your ...
Jun 30
When your #urbanfarmers are even radder than your urban farms. 🌾 | Homegrown garlic is a trophy marking the hard work and sweat our farmers throw down year-round. This winter crop, now gleaming in the sun, is better than you'll ever find at a conventional grocer. #priceless #garlictrophy
Who can name this #pollinatorfriendly #droughttolerant plant? Bonus if you can name the species of butterfly too! Happy International Pollinator Week! 🦋 🐝 🌻
Mat, our Co-President, and his amazing little daughter. | There is nothing more beautiful than spending time with our children in green spaces, passing on knowledge of the land, how to grow fresh food, and to take care of this planet. Happy Fathers' Day to dads of all types, those here, in our memories, and those who wish to be.
We dream of living in a world where #organicproduce is grown in all types of urban settings, personal kitchen gardens, small farms serving small communities, window ledge herbs, rooftop veggie patches, even high-rise allotments (which are so exhilarating for us to build!). A food system by the people for the people. 💪
Ok, serious #summertime craving 👉 Fried Green Tomato Sandwiches. When the wait is toooo long, pluck a few and fry them up, slather mayo onto toasted #sourdoughbread, add a slice of cheese and a few #pickledjalapenos, and eat over the kitchen sink. (Messy sandwich pro speaking here.) I'm lookin' at you, Sunday.
During the #summertime, our corporate farms boast ...
Jun 11
During the #summertime, our corporate farms boast pounds and pounds of #organicproduce as our #farmteam fills these huge kitchen prep tubs headed straight into #corporaterestaurant lunches. If you're like us, then you know there's nothing sweeter than eating right out of the garden. #itdoesn'tgetmorelocalthanthis
Summertime = #belliniseason 🍑 🍑 🍑 Who's ready?
We're nearing the end of #CaliforniaPoppy season as petals drop and seed pods burst open to start anew. How lucky are we to witness this beauty? Who's growing these orange beauties at home? 👋
Nasturtiums are delicious (and spicy!) #edibleflowers that self-seed. Add the blossoms to salads, pickle their seeds, wrap sashimi in #nasturtiumleaves, but whatever you do, keep them in containers. These gorgeous plants are considered invasive in temperate climates like Southern California where they easily #overwinter. Their vines take over hillsides and can make it difficult for #californianativeplants to thrive. So we recommend them for your #containergarden and #raisedbedgarden only! 👈
In this dreamy #workplacefarm there is no time for...
May 23
In this dreamy #workplacefarm there is no time for #sundayscaries. Imagine taking your next meeting under a swaying canopy of #grapevines adjacent to a teeming #butterflygarden 🦋
“I recently purchased a beautiful home with a gorgeous garden and my goal was not to kill it. California Farm and Garden came along, strategized with us on our goals, planted a fall garden with us and now we get to watch it grow. I highly encourage anyone wanting to grow (no pun intended) a place of peace and beauty to give California Farm and Garden a call. They’re amazing.”
“We are SO thrilled with the patio… thank you for making such a beautiful space. A couple of days ago one of the residents that ‘can’t’ stand up in the bathroom was standing up ALONE at the planter with the hand rail.”
“When I contemplated creating an organic garden for one of our properties my first stop was California Farm and Garden. It’s one thing to hire someone to select and install plants and grow them. It’s yet another experience to comprehensively collaborate with someone who has the passion, vision and the solid expertise to create and tend to something remarkable. That experience is what I had with Karen Contreras and all her team at California Farm and Garden”.
“I have worked with California Farm and Garden for the past couple years and not only do they provide awesome produce and knowledgeable Garden Tech’s, they provide a beautiful environment that helps me get through my day to day.”
“Laura and the California Farm and Garden Team are amazing. Quick response to problems as they arise. When they leave, it is as if they have never been because the area is clean. Great patience to help a very novice gardener learn the correct practices needed for the best harvest! Thank you.”
“All I can say is ‘I love it’. I would recommend California Farm and Garden to everyone. Thank you so much!”
