There is nothing like stepping into the backyard and harvesting your own vegetables. A well-built vegetable garden delivers fresh, organic food, a rewarding connection to the land, and a beautiful, productive addition to the yard. Orchard Keepers has designed, built, and maintained edible gardens across Santa Cruz and the greater Bay Area since 2004, and with a team rooted in the fundamentals of horticulture and organic practice, the company grows vegetable gardens built to produce. Understanding what goes into building one shows why the right company matters.

Most good yards in Santa Cruz are regularly maintained between being trimmed and watered. They look presentable, but they don't really do anything. And somewhere in the back of a lot of homeowners' minds lives an interesting question: 

“What if this space could be more than that?”

Edible landscaping is the answer that more and more people in Santa Cruz are arriving at. It's the idea that beauty and function don't have to live on opposite ends of your property. The space surrounding your home can be genuinely stunning while also producing fresh fruit and food that you can enjoy and even take pride in.

An edible landscape installation in Sanra Cruz, CA, and surrounding areas, can transform a traditional landscape into a productive, beautiful extension of your home. When we design an edible landscape installation, we combine layered plantings with fruits, vegetables, and herbs that thrive in our area’s hardiness zone. The result feels cohesive and intentional. At Orchard Keepers, we approach each edible landscape installation as a design-driven enhancement that strengthens both form and function in the backyard.