Garden Consultations
Your abundant garden starts here.
Every Columbus Foodscapes garden begins with a 60-90 minute garden consultation. During this visit, we’ll learn about your vision, walk through the basics of organic edible gardening, and survey your space to understand what’s possible.
From there, we’ll dream up a plan for your edible landscape together. Whether you’re looking for a full garden installation, guidance for a DIY project, improvements to an existing garden, ongoing organic maintenance, or hands-on education, we’re here to support you every step of the way.
Feeling stuck about where to start with your garden?
Maybe you dream of growing food at home, but feel overwhelmed by questions like:
Where should the garden actually go?
Will this area get enough sun?
How do I make my space both beautiful and productive?
How big should the garden be?
What kind of beds or systems should I use?
What fruit trees should I plant?
Instead of guessing or spending years experimenting, a consultation can help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
During this 60-90 minute on-site garden consultation, we’ll walk your property together and talk through the opportunities and challenges of your space. You’ll receive practical guidance and ideas tailored specifically to your yard, your goals, and your lifestyle.
This session is designed to help you gain clarity, explore possibilities, and get a custom proposal put together for any additional services (like maintenance or installation) for your garden.
What to Expect During Your Consultation
Your garden consultation is a 60-90 minute, collaborative walk-through of your space where we explore ideas, opportunities, and practical next steps for your garden.
During our time together, we will typically:
Walk your property and observe sun exposure, drainage, and existing landscape conditions
Discuss your goals, vision, and how you hope to use your garden space
Explore potential locations and pros and cons for raised beds, in-ground gardens, or food-producing landscapes
Talk through plant ideas, ecological considerations, and growing strategies
Review irrigation possibilities and options
Brainstorm various layout possibilities, specific to your space, and infrastructure elements such as beds, trellises, paths, or irrigation
Review ways to incorporate or centralize ecological garden techniques like pollinator gardens or native plantings
Answer your questions and identify next steps that make sense for your timeline and budget
Every garden and homeowner is different, so each consultation is tailored to your specific space and goals.
Please note: this consultation focuses on guidance, ideas, and strategy. After our session, we follow up with a tailored-to-you Garden Proposal that includes a scope-of-work and estimates for any services discussed at our consultation like annual vegetable garden plans, formal designs, and maintenance & installation services.
What This Consultation Is (and Isn’t)
This consultation is a 60–90 minute in-person conversation and walkthrough of your property where we discuss ideas, evaluate conditions, and explore possible directions for your garden.
This session does not include written plans, drawings, formal garden designs, or maintenance or installation services. Clients who are ready to move forward with additional services receive a detailed proposal after the consultation for any additional services.
What You’ll Leave With
By the end of the consultation, most clients walk away with:
Clear ideas about where raised bed, native, herb, pollinator, and other gardens could go
Insight into sun, soil, and growing conditions
Guidance on garden size and layout possibilities
Suggestions for plants and growing strategies
Strategies for managing pests, diseases, and animal intrusions in the garden
Next steps for moving forward
A rough sketch of bed layouts and infrastructure elements like patios or arbors
Most importantly, you’ll leave with confidence and direction for your space.
After Your Garden Consultation
If you decide you'd like additional support bringing your garden to life, we’re happy to help.
Following your consultation, we can provide a Garden Proposal outlining recommended next steps for your space. This proposal includes estimated pricing and scope of work for any services you may be interested in, such as:
Formal garden design plans
Garden installation
Raised bed construction and placement
Garden “fix-ups” or improvements to existing spaces
Planting out your garden with food, pollinator, and ecological plants
Seasonal garden support and coaching
Many clients begin with a consultation to gain clarity, and then move forward with one or more of these services when they’re ready.
What Happens After You Book
Once you order your consultation, you’ll immediately receive an email with a link to:
Schedule your consultation session
Fill out your pre-consultation form
This form helps us understand your goals, your space, and any specific questions you’d like to explore during our time together.
(If the email doesn’t appear right away, please check your junk or spam folder.)
A Note on Service Area
Kindly note that we currently service Columbus, Delaware, and surrounding suburbs, including areas such as Pickerington, Hilliard, Gahanna, Reynoldsburg, and nearby communities.
If you are located outside our typical service area but would still like to book a garden consultation, please contact us directly at info@columbusfoodscapes.com to discuss availability and pricing.
If you're ready to stop guessing and start planning a garden that works for your space, we'd love to help.
How It Works
Once you book your consultation, you’ll get a link right away to schedule your session so we can visit your site. We serve all of Franklin County including Columbus and the surrounding suburbs and neighborhoods (Dublin, Worthington, Hilliard, Gahanna, Bexley, New Albany, Grove City, Delaware, etc.) If you’re outside of the service area or are unsure if you are, kindly reach out here: info@columbusfoodscapes.com.
When you book your consultation, you also get a copy of our client-favorite resource, our Month-By-Month Planting Calendar.
① Book Your Consultation
The site visit begins with a tour of your landscape and a discussion about your goals and vision for your edible garden. At the site visit, you’ll get:
A Full Site Analysis, including feedback on and examination of soil, sun, potential & suggested garden placement, irrigation opportunities, and more.
A collaborative design session for your foodscape, which can include reviewing ideas for raised beds, in-ground beds, pollinator patches, rain barrels, pathways, trellises, rain gardens, garden structures like greenhouses and sheds, and more. If you’re not sure what you want yet, don’t worry, we bring plenty of images and come with ideas and suggestions!
A follow-up with a clear proposal and estimates for services we may have discussed at your session, like garden installations, garden fix-ups, garden coaching, and maintenance.
Any additional materials relevant to the consultation time, like our seed-starting chart, local references, favorite nurseries, and other resources
② Site Visit
After the consultation, we’ll prepare a clear garden proposal that includes any estimates for installations, DIY Garden guides, garden maintenance, and/or garden coaching.
You can treat this proposal as a menu: ordering what services you’d like and passing on the ones that don’t fit your needs right now.
Our proposals are often jumping-off places, and highly collaborative. We are happy to go through multiple iterations to ensure it fits your vision, budget, and space.
③ Review Your Proposal
We know the garden season waits for no one, so once you approve of your Garden Project(s), we’ll work to get your installation, maintenance, or garden coaching sessions on the calendar as soon as possible.
We know firsthand how exciting the promise of a new garden can be, so we are committed to clear deadlines and consistent communication throughout the process so you feel supported and have clarity every step of the way.
④ Project Approval & Installation
We’ll walk you through the entire garden so you know what’s growing and offer some tips & tricks to ensure a delicious bounty! All Columbus Foodscapes gardeners receive access to our exclusive Client Resource Library to ensure continued success.
If you could use a little extra support at any time, we are happy to offer various organic maintenance packages including monthly and quarterly visits, and specialty one-time maintenance. Maintenance services allow you to enjoy the light tending and harvests of your edible garden without feeling overwhelmed, and most of our clients enjoy the quarterly service for new compost and plants at the start of each season.
⑤ Enjoy The Bounty
Ready to Get Growing?
Book your consultation to get started.
Feeling stuck about where to start with your garden?
Maybe you dream of growing food at home, but feel overwhelmed by questions like:
Where should the garden actually go?
Will this area get enough sun?
How do I make my space both beautiful and productive?
How big should the garden be?
What kind of beds or systems should I use?
What fruit trees should I plant?
Instead of guessing or spending years experimenting, a consultation can help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
During this 60-90 minute on-site garden consultation, we’ll walk your property together and talk through the opportunities and challenges of your space. You’ll receive practical guidance and ideas tailored specifically to your yard, your goals, and your lifestyle.
This session is designed to help you gain clarity, explore possibilities, and get a custom proposal put together for any additional services (like maintenance or installation) for your garden.
What to Expect During Your Consultation
Your garden consultation is a 60-90 minute, collaborative walk-through of your space where we explore ideas, opportunities, and practical next steps for your garden.
During our time together, we will typically:
Walk your property and observe sun exposure, drainage, and existing landscape conditions
Discuss your goals, vision, and how you hope to use your garden space
Explore potential locations and pros and cons for raised beds, in-ground gardens, or food-producing landscapes
Talk through plant ideas, ecological considerations, and growing strategies
Review irrigation possibilities and options
Brainstorm various layout possibilities, specific to your space, and infrastructure elements such as beds, trellises, paths, or irrigation
Review ways to incorporate or centralize ecological garden techniques like pollinator gardens or native plantings
Answer your questions and identify next steps that make sense for your timeline and budget
Every garden and homeowner is different, so each consultation is tailored to your specific space and goals.
Please note: this consultation focuses on guidance, ideas, and strategy. After our session, we follow up with a tailored-to-you Garden Proposal that includes a scope-of-work and estimates for any services discussed at our consultation like annual vegetable garden plans, formal designs, and maintenance & installation services.
What This Consultation Is (and Isn’t)
This consultation is a 60–90 minute in-person conversation and walkthrough of your property where we discuss ideas, evaluate conditions, and explore possible directions for your garden.
This session does not include written plans, drawings, formal garden designs, or maintenance or installation services. Clients who are ready to move forward with additional services receive a detailed proposal after the consultation for any additional services.
What You’ll Leave With
By the end of the consultation, most clients walk away with:
Clear ideas about where raised bed, native, herb, pollinator, and other gardens could go
Insight into sun, soil, and growing conditions
Guidance on garden size and layout possibilities
Suggestions for plants and growing strategies
Strategies for managing pests, diseases, and animal intrusions in the garden
Next steps for moving forward
A rough sketch of bed layouts and infrastructure elements like patios or arbors
Most importantly, you’ll leave with confidence and direction for your space.
After Your Garden Consultation
If you decide you'd like additional support bringing your garden to life, we’re happy to help.
Following your consultation, we can provide a Garden Proposal outlining recommended next steps for your space. This proposal includes estimated pricing and scope of work for any services you may be interested in, such as:
Formal garden design plans
Garden installation
Raised bed construction and placement
Garden “fix-ups” or improvements to existing spaces
Planting out your garden with food, pollinator, and ecological plants
Seasonal garden support and coaching
Many clients begin with a consultation to gain clarity, and then move forward with one or more of these services when they’re ready.
What Happens After You Book
Once you order your consultation, you’ll immediately receive an email with a link to:
Schedule your consultation session
Fill out your pre-consultation form
This form helps us understand your goals, your space, and any specific questions you’d like to explore during our time together.
(If the email doesn’t appear right away, please check your junk or spam folder.)
A Note on Service Area
Kindly note that we currently service Columbus, Delaware, and surrounding suburbs, including areas such as Pickerington, Hilliard, Gahanna, Reynoldsburg, and nearby communities.
If you are located outside our typical service area but would still like to book a garden consultation, please contact us directly at info@columbusfoodscapes.com to discuss availability and pricing.
If you're ready to stop guessing and start planning a garden that works for your space, we'd love to help.