Food Sovereignty

Edible Landscaping

Front-yard plantings that feed you and still look intentional.

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Cedar no-dig raised beds planted with greens and squash

First-Harvest Guarantee

Garden

The Year-Round Harvest System

4.8 · 128 reviews

Four 4×8 rot-resistant cedar beds, corner hardware, landscape cardboard and a full season of drip line.

About $1,300 of grocery-equivalent food from four beds, season one
First harvest roughly eight weeks after you fill the beds
Planting calendar built for your frost dates, not a generic zone

“I'd killed two gardens before this. The calendar told me exactly what to sow and when — we stopped buying produce in June.”

Marisol Reyes · Bloomington, Indiana

$689$749

Freshly inoculated oak logs stacked in dappled forest shade

First-Flush Guarantee

Garden

The Six-Year Mushroom Harvest

4.9 · 96 reviews

Sawdust spawn for 20 logs, an angle-grinder inoculation tool, wax and a marking system that survives the woods.

500 shiitake plug spawn
Inoculation tool and drill bit
Food-grade wax and applicator

“Two beds and four hens. I stopped buying eggs in March and produce in June. My grocery bill is down about a third and my kids eat things they used to refuse.”

Marisol Reyes · Bloomington, Indiana

$168$189

Drip irrigation header running along mulched garden beds

Never-Again Guarantee

Water

The No-Hand-Watering System

4.7 · 57 reviews

Low-pressure emitters, filtration and headers designed to run off a tank at 4 psi — no pump anywhere in the loop.

Gravity-rated drip line and emitters
Filter and pressure compensator
Tank fittings and manifold

“We lost power for five days in January. The neighbors drove to a hotel. We had light, heat, and water at 42 psi the whole time because it all runs downhill.”

Tom Ferrar · Bennington, Vermont

$412

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