Bay Area Garden Design, Installation & Services

Looking for an expert organic gardener to help transform your Bay Area garden?

Whether you are looking for an expert gardener to help you plan and trouble shoot your ornamental and edible garden space, or someone to do it all, from planning your site to harvesting your vegetables, we’re here to help.

We work to grow fresh nutritious organic food for our clients by building and protecting soil on site, planting and pruning for greater yields, and working with the natural ecosystems of your plot to produce a dynamic, productive and visually arresting garden.

We specialize in combining elements of your traditional ornamental landscape or grass lawn with an edible and eco-friendly “kitchen garden” – working with flowers and food to develop a strong structure and vibrant aesthetic for your food-producing edible landscape. It’s that much easier to get excited about growing food if you love the way your garden looks!

Interested in organic urban farming but don't think you have enough space.

Don’t worry - we also design gardens for apartment windows, balconies, patios and rooftops using window-boxes, containers and raised beds!

Our goal is to help you create a beautiful and sustainable outdoor living space.

We see your garden as a living whole and aim to create a space in which all elements, including you, work together in a self-sustaining system. We will develop a year-round gardening calendar for you, utilizing crop rotation, companion planting, cover crops and composting to help recycle nutrients. If you need help introducing gray-water systems, keeping chickens, or developing other aspects of your sustainable ecosystem, we can help get you going with that too.

Organic garden maintenance services.

Our maintenance services include organic care for edibles and ornamentals. We provide lawn care, bi-weekly and seasonal cleanup work. See Fishtea’s Urban Fix for more details re handyman repairs, carpentry painting and fire-clearing. Rates start at $25/hr for the most basic hauling work and range up to $45/hr for specialized edible care. 

Gardening services for San Francisco and the Bay Area

Star Apple provides services throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Marin County, Lafayette, Walnut Creek, San Mateo, Hillsborough and Palo Alto. If you’re looking for urban farming or edible gardening help in the Sierra Foothills or Sacramento area, check out the work of our good friends at Garden Fare!