Yates and his staff will lay out, prep and plant the garden, and stop by through out the season to check in, but it's the homeowner's duty to water, weed, kill bugs and harvest.
Around the middle of that spectrum in the Guided Gardener package. They offer a Busy Bee package in which 90 percent of the gardening is performed by staff, leaving only harvesting to the homeowner. For $1,086, Hungry Gnome will set up soil and compost and plants four seasons of crops. Yates calls their services vegetable garden support programs.įor $60, a Hungry Gnome will come out and assess your land and offer his advice about how best to turn it into a productive edible landscape.įrom there, Hungry Gnome has cheaper do-it-yourself packages aimed at gardeners who have some weekend time to help tend their plots. "We build programs that span that continuum."
"Depending on the client, it can be a combination of the two," he said. Yates said that most of his clients have a dearth of time, or a dearth of knowledge and experience with vegetable gardening. Homeowners call up Hungry Gnome for a variety of reasons, said owner Kevin Yates, "but a lot of them want a connection with where their food comes from and a connection to nature as experienced through their land."īut today's fast-paced lifestyle offers only easy digital connectivity and little time to dig into the earth. Since 2009, Hungry Gnome Gardenscapes has been following a mission to empower people to grow their own food, and doing helping homeowners do so in their own backyards by setting up and maintaining gardens. Healthy plants start with healthy soil, the Hungry Gnomes say.
There's always dirty work to be done.Īnd in February, the gnomes are scurrying around in rubber boots to clients' homes to build garden beds, plant onions and ready soil for a busy spring and summer planting season. Rather than amending soil and arranging planting schedules, just what clothes to wear during such shifty elements is perhaps the more pressing question.īut the wiry green thumbs at Hungry Gnome Gardenscapes never stop preparing and supporting vegetable gardens at homes around Athens. Few people are thinking about their gardens as February's moody weather freezes, warms and cools again.
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