Garden Consulting

Grow Your Garden with Confidence

Ready to transform your garden? Whether you’re just starting out or looking to take your gardening skills to the next level, personalized guidance can make all the difference.

Customized Home Gardening Consultations

With my years of professional growing experience and a degree in horticulture, I’ve helped countless gardeners turn their spaces—big or small—into productive, beautiful gardens. My consultations are tailored to your unique needs, offering actionable advice on topics such as:

  • Crop Planning and Garden Design: Maximize your harvest across spring, summer, and fall.

  • Soil Health: Know what’s in your soil and how to maintain it for healthy plants.

  • Pest & Weed Management: Learn sustainable techniques to keep your garden healthy.

  • Succession Planting & Intercropping: Optimize your garden's productivity.

Whether you’re managing a backyard plot, raised beds, or a balcony garden, I’ll help you achieve your gardening goals.

Guidance for Small Farms

Whether you’re a market farmer, CSA, or selling wholesale, I am ready and able to help you:

  • Grow High-Value Crops with Confidence: Select specialty crops for your region and market, optimize soil health, improve yields, and scale up.

  • Prevent and Manage Crop Pests and Diseases Naturally: Identify common pests and diseases, use Integrated Pest Management (IPM), use organic and low-impact methods, and track and prevent recurring issues.

  • Grow Beyond the Seasons & Increase Profits with Season Extension Techniques: Use low-cost methods of season extension, use row covers, caterpillar tunnels, and high tunnels effectively, manage temperature and humidity inside structures, crop selection for early and late seasons, and timing plantings for continuous harvest.

  • Farmer’s Market Preparedness, Marketing & Pricing Strategies: Create an eye-catching farmers’ market display, use pricing strategies that maximize profit margins, use social media and branding to attract customers, build customer loyalty and repeat sales, track sales and make data-driven adjustments.

  • Income Diversification: Expand your farm’s potential by identifying areas for increased revenue to reduce risk by adding value-added products to your farm business, agritourism and on-farm events, hosting workshops, online courses, and identifying profitable side ventures.

Flexible Options to Fit Your Needs

  • Hourly Consultations: A minimum of one hour, with additional time available as needed.

  • Pre-Defined Packages: Structured sessions with a clear agenda to dive deep into specific topics.

I offer both in-person consultations at your site (local to the Kansas City Metro area) and virtual consultations to connect no matter where you’re growing.

Why Work with Me?

When you book a consultation, you’re tapping into:

  • Almost two decades of hands-on farming and gardening expertise.

  • Proven methods shared on my award-winning podcast, online courses, and workshops.

  • A tailored, evidence-based approach to make your garden thrive.

  • Rates start at just $60.

“Your help finally got us past the basics so that we could experience the fun and joy of growing our own food. Everything I have on the list for next year feels like optimizing techniques rather than survival and it’s a great feeling to know I can actually do the thing thanks to your help!”
— R.H.
“I really enjoyed our session!   You helped me clarify my path so I could get going.”
— J.L.

Let’s Grow Something!

Complete the form on the right and to tell me about your gardening goals and challenges. I’ll follow up with a suggested plan and to schedule your personalized consultation to help you take the next step toward a flourishing garden.