Join us at the next Agriscaping Edible Garden Tour and you will be able to do just that!

TV’s Chef Brad, founder of Fusion Grain Cooking is coming to our Edible Garden Tour on the 11th!!!

AND, he’ll be taking fresh produce from the garden tour and creating a NEW delicious recipe for us right there on my back patio for us all to enjoy.!

Chef Brad, known as “America’s Grain Guy” has spent the last fifteen years combining his passion for food with his love of grains. Chef Brad practically grew up in the restaurant business starting work at the age of 13 in a local coffee shop in the small town where he grew up. That started his lifetime of working with food.

This next tour just keeps getting better!

Parking is limited.

$20 each.

I hope you can join us!

Growing With Delight,

~Justin Rohner

Before there was Justin Rohner and the Agriscaping movement… there was Don Titmus and the Permaculture Guild.

Don is originally from London, England, moved here to Arizona in 1981, and has been been actively contributing to the world of horticulture for more than 35 years, at least 12 of which in organic gardening here in the desert. He’s an expert in Edible Landscaping for sure and has helped out on a number of Agriscaping Community projects as well!

Don and his talented wife, Cris (a fellow Agriscaping student) will be opening their beautifully productive gardens for a FREE tour!

WHEN: This Saturday, July 28th from 8:30am till approximately 10:30am

Location:

Bee Oasis

See EVENTS for more details Saturday, June 16th at 9am and 1:00 pm
Justin gives your a great Intro into Growing Edibles Indoors as well as preparing for the Monsoon season.

See EVENTS for more details Saturday, July 21st at 9am and 1:00 pm
Join Justin as he steps it up a notch to (level 2) Master-Planning for your garden. He’ll also give you an introduction into the Beneficial Insects.

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"Frog Nog... YUM!"

This recipe is a Rohner Family favorite!

All the main ingredients are ripe the entire winter and the recipe itself is not only an amazingly powerful cold-buster, it’s also a great revitalizer and natural energy booster.

A favorite drink just before soccer games, yard-work, and just about anything requiring energy.

ENJOY!

Just Blend and Mix-in

Ingredients:

2 qt Orange Juice (fresh-squeezed is best)

1-2 Bananas

1 Handful Fresh Spinach

1 Handful Fresh Parsley

1 Avocado (optional)

Preparation:

Pour 2 cups OJ into blender with remaining ingredients.

Blend to desired texture.

Pour mixture into 1 gallon container with remaining OJ and stir.

Serve cold.

"So Dad, this is how you get us to eat the vegitables that we don't normally like..."~Mason

 Treat Yourself to Improved Health

and Self Reliance in the New Year!

Grow Fresh, Organic Produce

in your own backyard.

& We’ll Do ALL the Work!

Service Plans start at just $27 a month.

Call 480-336-2518 for a free estimate.

Complete Garden Service Plan (NEW ENHANCED BASIC PLAN)

Personal Gardeners that Produce MORE than they consume each and every visit. Basic maintenance plan includes:

• Full Lawn , Rock Maintenance and Composting Services
• Organic Weed Control
• Tree and Bush Trimming the way you like them and optimized for peak form and production.
• Full Edible Garden maintenance including:
• New Planting (10 new edible starts and 1 pack of seeds added monthly on basic plan)
• Compost maintenance and rotation as needed for optimal performance
• Organic Compost-Tea Treatment/Feeding for all your plants (including lawns) each month
• Garden Planning Help (using our online-garden planner software)
• Optimal Rotation Guidance (expert suggested rotation of crops for improved production)
• Tree Feeding (3-4 times per year for all citrus, stone-fruit, apples, etc.)
• Harvesting (let nothing go to waste! More than you can eat or share? We’ll harvest and sell it through UtopianHarvest.com & credit you 40-60% of the sale)
• Fluent English-speaker on-site and on-call. All our crews are run by fluent bi-lingual crew chiefs who cherish and respect their clients and their crew.
• Direct access with your crew-chief 24-7: If you have an emergency you will have the direct cell# and email of YOUR crew chief who can both assess and solve whatever challenge you might have in your yard.
•  Basic Organic pest removal is also provided.

NEW – Agriscaper On-Demand

30-Day Complete Maintenance Service

30-Day complete maintenance service is included with all raised planter packages. That’s right, after we plant your garden you get a FREE 30-day trial period of the Complete Maintenance Service Plan. — FREE

Replanting Service

Do you have an existing garden that really doesn’t look its best? We will come to your home and completely replant your existing garden. We will amend your soil and add plants and seeds. A typical 4′x8′ planter costs $147 to replant.

CALL 800-729-1068

]]> http://www.iagriscape.com/maintenance-services/feed/ 0 http://www.iagriscape.com/landscape-design/ http://www.iagriscape.com/landscape-design/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:24:05 +0000 admin http://www.iagriscape.com/?p=359 A good landscape design should incorporate elements of your family’s interests, compliment the architectural elements of your home, and provide your family with a real reason to be outdoors enhancing your everyday life.

Agriscaping Design Consultation

The initial consultation is an opportunity to meet you, your current landscape, and to go over your wish list, explore the realistic possibilities of creating an elegant edible landscape based on your budget and to have some fun creating your ideal scene in your landscape.

The fee for the initial consultation is $97. SEE WHAT’S INCLUDED HERE Many clients are sure to have a recording device available because this is more than just a walk in the park with me. As we walk around the yard I’m going to be making suggestions, identifying specific plant varieties, watering needs, and care instructions to take your yard from where ever it currently is… to exactly where you want it to be, and beyond. I certainly respect that this economy is bringing out the gardener in all of us, and I certainly respect that and would love to support you in doing as much as you would like to do on your own.

Some have wondered, “Why do you charge when others do free consultations?”

First off, I really love it when clients jump in and get their hands dirty! And I know for a fact that one of the most time-consuming things in gardening is figuring out exactly what to do out there in the yard… So, I charge for my initial time because I’m going to give you EXACTLY what you need to do to optimize the health, beauty, and productivity of your yard the first time we meet. What I’ll share with you in our consultation you can’t find in a book, unless someone wrote a book about YOUR yard. So, be sure to have your note-pad and a recorder handy when I get there.

Second, which really dove-tails well with the first, is that I believe in providing professional, ethical and honest landscape design and consultation service to my clients. That old, “free consultation” tactic used by many old-school landscape designers and contractors was a way to GUILT you into working with them. I’m not a fan of such fear-tactics. I actually LOVE what I do, and I love the people I’m able to serve. So, when you and I meet, I’d like to fill our time with bringing your landscaping dreams into reality and empowering you with understanding, respect, and a good bit of joy.

Typical Design Fees…

Full designs begin at $750 and include the full design, care instructions, and a Full Annual planting and harvesting calendar based on what YOU would enjoy eating from your yard. (don’t worry, we’ll design it in such a way that it won’t take any more effort you are already doing to get your fresh produce, without all the negative side affects!)

The reality is, each yard is different. Each client is different. For example, picture a whole yard designed with just grass, a 4×8 foot raised planting bed, and one fruit tree.

Simple right? Of course. That’s a very simple design that you’ll likely get for free… cause I’ll do it for you on the spot when I come over for our initial consultation.

Now, on the flip side, imagine a yard filled with lush, green edible foliage, placed perfectly in the yard to maximize health and productivity based on annual sun-paths, watering needs, micro-climates, and utilizes both rainwater-harvesting and an integrated grey-water system to supply each and every plant with the water they need, automatically. Imagine a back-yard with a large stone-lined natural pool that uses a complex system of beautiful water falls and lush plant-life that actually cleans the pool by filtering the water through the root-systems of these specialized plants like a glacier-fed lake, rather than through toxic chemicals. Imagine a yard with a serine hidden getaway nestled behind a beautifully designed wood-shop with an elegant spiral-stairway to it’s organic roof-top garden complete with automated watering systems and organized in such a way to make harvesting simple and fun. Imagine that in that same yard, just a few feet from your back door, there is a beautiful gazebo perfect for outdoor eating whose pillars are graced, each with a mature vine that weaves effortlessly through the trellised rafters filled with clusters of your favorite vine-growing fruit.

That Design is a bit more complicated, right? You bet! And, obviously the price is considerably more for that yard. The point is, we’ll arrive at the fee together so we can create a design that is aligned with your vision and your budget.

A deposit is required at signing of agreement, with the balance due either at different phase completions or upon full completion of concept design

We have a host of local organic growers and acres of nursery stock from our friends at Harper’s Nursery in Scottsdale and Summer Winds in Phoenix to assist in all your planting.

Call Now 800-729-1068

After a long month of waiting, our fall batch of Bantam Chickens have finally arrived.
We ended up with about 6 more than expected so if you’d like to add a few beautiful, productive pets to your landscape, just let me know.
This season we’ve got:
~White-crested Black Polish
~Birchen Cochen
~White Silkies
~Buff (tan) Silkies
~Americana (Green-egg layers)
~Mille Fluer D’Uccle

They will each produce roughly one egg a day, eat bugs, scorpions, and table-scraps and turn them into some of the richest organic fertaliser available.

I love it when a watermelon fills a whole shelf in the fridge!
This beauty weighed in at 15 lbs. 2oz. And was grown organicall in my beautiful backyard gardens.

This plant was started indoors as a seed. Currently 9-weeks old. North facing with hot afternoon sun.
An Elegant Edible Vine that’s great for summer.