Edible Landscape Company in Santa Cruz County, CA
Orchard Keepers is an edible landscape company based in Santa Cruz, providing home orchard care, edible landscape design and installation, and ongoing garden maintenance to homeowners throughout Santa Cruz County. Since 2004, our team has designed, built, and cared for fruit trees, kitchen gardens, and ecological landscapes across the county’s mix of coastal, valley, and mountain terrain, from beach-adjacent properties near Capitola to redwood-shaded lots above Boulder Creek. Wherever your property sits in Santa Cruz County, our crews bring twenty years of local growing knowledge to the work.
Home Orchard Care Throughout Santa Cruz County
The county’s elevation and distance from the coast create real differences in how fruit trees perform, so our home orchard care starts with reading the property: a tree in the fog-cooled lowlands near Santa Cruz and Capitola needs different handling than one in the warmer inland pockets near Aptos or Soquel. From there, care follows the same seasonal cycle of pruning, feeding, fruit thinning, and organic pest and disease management wherever the property sits. Home orchard installation and monthly maintenance visits are both available countywide.
Edible Landscape Design & Installation Across the County
Our team designs and installs complete edible landscapes throughout Santa Cruz County, weaving together fruit trees and kitchen gardens with native and drought-tolerant plantings chosen for coastal or inland conditions, garden structures and hardscape like patios and pathways, and irrigation systems sized to the site. Food-producing garden system elements such as raised beds round out many projects. Because a lot near Monterey Bay and a wooded property near Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park call for very different plans, every edible landscape installation begins with design work specific to that site.
Ongoing Landscape & Garden Maintenance Countywide
Coastal fog, redwood shade, and inland sun each ask something different of a landscape, and our maintenance team adjusts care to match wherever a property sits in the county. Services include vegetable and kitchen garden care, healthy soil management, irrigation system management, and integrated pest management, all run organically with OMRI-approved materials, on a monthly, bi-weekly, or weekly visit schedule depending on the property’s needs.
About Santa Cruz County, CA
Santa Cruz County sits on California’s Central Coast, forming the northern edge of Monterey Bay and stretching from the Pacific inland through the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Its four incorporated cities, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Capitola, and Scotts Valley, are joined by unincorporated communities including Aptos, Soquel, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek, Felton, Corralitos, and Bonny Doon, with roughly half the county’s residents living outside city limits. Highway 17 and Highway 9 connect the coast to the mountain towns, passing near Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and the San Lorenzo River, while the fertile Pajaro Valley in the county’s south supports one of the region’s oldest agricultural traditions. From sandy coastal lots to shaded mountain acreage, the county’s range of terrain and microclimate means an edible landscape needs a plan suited to its specific corner of the county.
Other Service Areas
In addition to Santa Cruz County, Orchard Keepers provides edible landscape and home orchard services near Santa Cruz, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Portola Valley, and Atherton.