Announcing: Good Food Gardens

We create a beautiful vegetable garden in your yard, and help you learn to grow nutritious food and herbs while building the soil fertility and conserving our resources.
In our great grandparents time, every household had a kitchen garden that was planted with hearty greens, salad fixings, and herbs. They were usually situated in the backyard, near the kitchen so the cook could quickly step outside to pick fresh food and herbs to liven up the meal. Our aim is to recreate those kitchen gardens and help you eat healthy vibrant food from your own yard, and eventually get you growing on your own.

Join Good Food Gardens and keep it real local- your backyard!

What do you get from Good Food Gardens?

You enjoy fresh, vibrant veggies and herbs weekly.
Your farmer comes to you.
You receive recipes weekly.
You know your food source intimately.
Your household can learn as we go.
You get a cool, back yard retreat.

What Good Food Gardens provides:

We use crop rotation and improve soil nutrition.
We provide the appropriate plants and seeds through the season.
We provide the expertise & hard work.
We tend and harvest the farms weekly.

We do all the work, you enjoy your Good Food!

We have different plans to choose from:

The Full Meal Deal- Installation & Weekly or Monthly Maintenance:
Once a week (or month) we tend your yard, harvest your veggies and healing herbs, and leave them in a basket on your doorstep ready to eat. You and your family are encouraged to harvest from the garden the rest of the week, picking the freshest possible vegetables for every meal. At the end of the season, we will leave your yard in a cover crop to enhance next year's soil.

Help Yourself! Consulting: Maintaining a garden takes skills, time, and organization. Many people have the time and energy to maintain a garden, but don't know when to start and how to plan for the full season. This is the service for you! You do the work, and learn different aspects of farming in your unique ecosystem each month. We will provide the plant starts, or we will help you start them yourselves! Everyone in the household can join in the consultation. Eventually, our goal is to teach you how to plan for and create a system that works in your garden, and for your household.

Who are You Farmers?

Jayne Simmons wants you to grow your own vegetables and make your own home remedies, and generally become more self sufficient. She has been an avid gardener and cook for over 20 years, served on the Board of Directors for Seattle Tilth from 2002 until 2005, and helped to re-create The Longfellow Creek Community Garden in 2008. Jayne lives in West Seattle and owns Sister Sage Herbs, an herb farm and natural remedies company on Vashon Island, and is working towards her own self sufficiency.

Jen Coe envisions a world in which everyone has access to fresh, organic produce. She has worked with farmers in West Africa, volunteered as a WSU Master Gardener, and served on the board of the Vashon Island Growers Association. For five years Jen managed a 16 acre school farm, where she both gardened with children and grew produce for Seattle restaurants. She is currently working hard to establish a vegetable garden for the Vashon Food Bank. Jen lives, farms and raises honey bees on Vashon Island.

To sign up contact Jayne Simmons @ 206-898-2101 - tilthjayne@yahoo.com OR Jennifer Coe @ 206-384-0973- jenntree@gmail.com

* We can even maintain your chicken coop! Daily chicken care will be the responsibility of the home owner, but we will change the bedding and add chips to their yard (extra fee).