Fresh Food for You and for Our Community
Introducing Mariposa’s Round the Block Farms
Mariposa Gardening & Design developed Round the Block Farms to increase food security for our clients and community in the Bay Area. This service gives you everything you need to grow fresh, clean, nutrient dense fruits and vegetables just outside your door. We can maintain the garden and harvest the produce for you or you can manage your food garden yourself.
We take care of sourcing the materials and figuring out the perfect place to create your beds. We build the beds (or bed), adding soil and compost before we plant seedlings. The beds can include irrigation if you wish (or you can hand water and have a very satisfying connection with your garden as it grows). We can set up additional protection if you have known issues with gophers, rabbits, deer, or other garden marauders.
Mariposa Gardening & Design developed Round the Block Farms to increase food security for our clients and community in the Bay Area. This service gives you everything you need to grow fresh, clean, nutrient dense fruits and vegetables just outside your door. We can maintain the garden and harvest the produce for you or you can manage your food garden yourself.
We take care of sourcing the materials and figuring out the perfect place to create your beds. We build the beds (or bed), adding soil and compost before we plant seedlings. The beds can include irrigation if you wish (or you can hand water and have a very satisfying connection with your garden as it grows). We can set up additional protection if you have known issues with gophers, rabbits, deer, or other garden marauders.
You can choose from any or all of the options below to create your own food resiliency garden:
If you’re looking for something that’s not on the list, just ask and we’ll let you know if we can provide it. (Hint: we probably can)
Giving Back
One of our most cherished goals for Round the Block Farms is to support the overall health and resiliency of our community by helping those who have little or no access to fresh, nutritious food. We feel strongly that fresh locally grown produce should be available to everyone regardless of their financial situation. If you’d like to join us in this work, we’re offering opportunities to sponsor all or part of a planting bed installation and maintenance for people who qualify to receive the aid.
Contact us to learn how we can help you grow food for your family and, if you have the means, serve your community at the same time!
COVID-19: We’ve developed strict safety protocols around offering this essential service. Scroll down below the pictures below for information on how we're protecting your safety and the safety of our gardeners working on your land.
- Planter Beds: Woven wattle, stone, stock tank, or standard wood options, drip irrigation, and humane pest + rodent control available
- Plants: Nutrient-dense offerings such as leafy greens, potatoes, corn, and beans. Tomatoes, cucumbers, salad greens. Edible flowers, fruits and fruit trees. Culinary and medicinal herbs. Companion plants to encourage pollination and discourage garden pests. Three Sisters Gardens (mounds growing squash, corn, and beans) providing nutritionally complete food for whole families.
- Food Forest: By using fruit or nut trees, we mimic a forest ecosystem that is planted with herbs, companion plants, edible flowers and plants that attract beneficial insects; can be interplanted with your existing garden flora.
- Potato Boxes: deep containers for growing calorie-rich, nutritious potatoes
- Honeybee Hives
- Chicken Coops
- Weekly, bi-Monthly or Monthly Subscription for Services: Includes weeding, fertilizing, harvesting, and seasonal replanting. Subscribers will get a weekly newsletter featuring recipes, tips for getting the most out of your garden, and ideas for sharing your bounty with your neighbors.
If you’re looking for something that’s not on the list, just ask and we’ll let you know if we can provide it. (Hint: we probably can)
Giving Back
One of our most cherished goals for Round the Block Farms is to support the overall health and resiliency of our community by helping those who have little or no access to fresh, nutritious food. We feel strongly that fresh locally grown produce should be available to everyone regardless of their financial situation. If you’d like to join us in this work, we’re offering opportunities to sponsor all or part of a planting bed installation and maintenance for people who qualify to receive the aid.
Contact us to learn how we can help you grow food for your family and, if you have the means, serve your community at the same time!
COVID-19: We’ve developed strict safety protocols around offering this essential service. Scroll down below the pictures below for information on how we're protecting your safety and the safety of our gardeners working on your land.
Mariposa Gardening & Design Covid-19 Safety Protocols
In order to keep our workers and our customers safe, we've instituted the following safety protocols:
Hygiene:
Social Distancing:
In order to keep our workers and our customers safe, we've instituted the following safety protocols:
Hygiene:
- Hand washing kits shall be available to all employees when entering a client’s garden. Kits shall include: liquid hand soap, scrub brush, rags and tissue,
- Team members must clean hands often, including immediately after removing gloves and after contact with surfaces, by washing hands with soap and water for 20 seconds. To wash effectively, rub vigorously and make sure you scrub the webbing between the fingers. If soap and water are not available and hands are not visibly dirty, an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol may be used (Soap and water are preferable!)
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands.
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing, or do so into your elbow. Throw the tissue away immediately and go to a hand washing stand.
- Tool cleaning kits shall be available to all employees when entering a client’s garden. The tool cleaning kit shall include: 5 galllon bucket filled with water and bleach, and handrags to sue to clean the handles when done using the tool.
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces on worksites and in offices, including hand rails, doorknobs and portable toilets.
Social Distancing:
- Keep a distance of at least 6 feet from others as much as possible.
- Greet from a respectful distance: Don’t shake hands, hug or high-five
- Whenever possible, Round the Block Farms food beds are installed by one person at a time. For the majority of projects, only one person will be needed on the job site.
- No tool sharing. Tools should be sanitized with bleach before and after each use.
- Car pooling is not allowed
- Have materials delivered; reduce contact with vendors
- Bring food and water from home; don’t go to the grocery store or pick up food from a restaurant
- Sick workers are required to stay at home.
- Minimize contact among workers, clients, and customers by replacing face-to-face meetings with virtual communications and implementing telework if feasible.
- Everyone shall wear a disposable mask, or a cloth mask that will be washed at the end of the day. If employees do not have a cloth mask, one will be provided.