StartOrganic

StartOrganic Teaching you how to grow your own organic food is our main mission. Here we share tips, tricks and other tidbits on veggie and fruit gardening.

We teach employee gardening and have online courses available too! Educating employees for the most respected companies on the planet as well as home gardening classes for all! StartOrganic has brought gardening knowledge and curriculum to Apple, PayPal, HPE, Intuit, Patagonia, Bed Bath & Beyond, NetApp, Tesla, LinkedIn and many other forward thinking companies across the planet
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At StartOrganic

, we believe there is great power in hyper-locally sourcing your daily food. We provide employees and home gardeners with detailed and up-to-date knowledge of how to best grow 100% organic foods in your garden, neighborhood, and in your workplace. Not only are hyper-local foods better tasting, healthier and more nutritious, but growing your own food also has many other fundamental benefits:

• Tending to a garden can literally make you happier, due to the brain interaction of the organic soil and plant components, as well as the satisfaction to eat what you have tenderly grown yourself;

• Children show far greater desire and pro-activeness in eating fruits and veggies when they are familiar and educated in the food growing process;

• Growing your own food is a far more sustainable and earth-friendly way to save money and all those endless trips to the grocery store;

• Freshly picked fruits and veggies are an unparalleled source of high quality nutrients and minerals;

• Home gardens have shown to significantly improve and engage entire communities;

• An employee garden in corporate offices have shown significant increase in work productivity and employee satisfaction (there is nothing like taking food home from your own box at work!);

• Growing your own food takes you 'off the grid', and lessens the demand for less nutritious produce that come from large, polluting corporations who seek profit above quality. We can think of countless more reasons why growing your own food is the best move you can make for your future, but Facebook has a limit on the amount we can write on this section. You can better your future one plant at a time. The best part is that StartOrganic is here to help you do just that, totally hassle-free, and with a lot of fun! Contact us to learn how we can help you take out your lawn - or the lawn in your office grounds - and place a gorgeous edible garden in its place. We promise you, it will be a decision you will cherish for life. Check out our website (www.startorganic.org), for more info on how to start your own garden. Update: We are now also on instagram! Check out even more tips and updates on what we are up to at !

Wondering which are the best hose bib timers? Troy Smo & StartOrganic  were mentioned in an article on the website of th...
06/18/2024

Wondering which are the best hose bib timers? Troy Smo & StartOrganic were mentioned in an article on the website of the one and only Bob Vila ! Check it out..


https://www.bobvila.com/articles/best-hose-timer/ #:~:text=We%20also%20interviewed-,Troy%20Smothermon,-%2C%20a%20fellow%20gardener

We are happy to announce StartOrganic's newest employee garden has been built and planted! Thanks so much to the leaders...
05/28/2024

We are happy to announce StartOrganic's newest employee garden has been built and planted! Thanks so much to the leadership at Zuora for welcoming such a great addition to their Redwood City campus and seeing the value a community garden brings to all involved!

We are excited to see the garden (and the ZEOs) flourish this year and beyond! To document the employee gardening process, we'd like to thank Tommy Beal and Michael Crocker who got some amazing footage that we will get to share with you all when it's ready...stay tuned :)

04/24/2024

Today was our 11th Annual Spring Planting Day at PayPal's HQ in San Jose, CA -- the longest-running employee gardening program of its kind. Fun time celebrating Earth Week, 600+ plants in 56 garden beds with 70+ amazing PayPal employees! Cheers to another year!

Grow More, Stress Less


03/27/2024

Happy Hour, once again, today @ 4pm!

Thank you to everyone that joined us for our StartOrganic Happy Hour Kickoff event. It was super great to see everyone. ...
03/11/2024

Thank you to everyone that joined us for our StartOrganic Happy Hour Kickoff event. It was super great to see everyone.

Community Farm Stands are a great way to share some of your extra harvest. For a temporary solution, folding tables under a shade tree are so easy to set up and take down after the season.

For those of you wanting to do something more permanent, here is some inspiration. 🌱

Troy from StartOrganic was invited to be on the Dr. Haley Show Podcast! It was a great conversation, definitely worth a ...
02/01/2024

Troy from StartOrganic was invited to be on the Dr. Haley Show Podcast! It was a great conversation, definitely worth a listen! Thanks, Haley Nutrition for having us on:

‎Health & Fitness · 2024

However you feel about Joe Rogan, can’t disagree that anyone against home gardens should not be trusted! :)
01/30/2024

However you feel about Joe Rogan, can’t disagree that anyone against home gardens should not be trusted! :)

Anyone that discourages people from growing their own food is not your friend.

I'll be speaking at the heirloom seed expo all about employee gardening if anyone is in the Ventura area! 2:30PM :) - Jo...
09/12/2023

I'll be speaking at the heirloom seed expo all about employee gardening if anyone is in the Ventura area! 2:30PM :) - Josh

Food at the fairgrounds has a reputation for providing quick energy and guilty pleasure, but an upcoming event will offer a different kind of deliciousness. Rather than the Ventura County

Move over Watergate and Deflategate, there's a new scandal in town that's rocking the gardening community— !  If you hav...
08/04/2023

Move over Watergate and Deflategate, there's a new scandal in town that's rocking the gardening community— ! If you have had a different type of pepper popping up than you thought you bought/planted, this may be why!

Move over Watergate and Deflategate, there's a new scandal in town that's rocking the gardening community— !

Your mission should you decide to accept it, is to find all the Leysa Peppers in this photo. Sometimes you need to be a ...
07/20/2023

Your mission should you decide to accept it, is to find all the Leysa Peppers in this photo.

Sometimes you need to be a Super Spy to harvest all that you've grown!

Show us what you're growing!

Had a great time at  Institute's Organic Center Field Day.  My amazing assistant Quincy and I learned a bunch about rege...
07/12/2023

Had a great time at Institute's Organic Center Field Day. My amazing assistant Quincy and I learned a bunch about regenerative farming and the research Rodale is doing at McGrath family farm in Camarillo, CA to demonstrate the benefits of converting conventional farms to organic -- Thank you! Josh Levine

Happy Solstice Everyone! Hope your gardens are pumping! So thankful for the sun these days!
06/22/2023

Happy Solstice Everyone! Hope your gardens are pumping! So thankful for the sun these days!

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At StartOrganic, we believe there is great power in hyper-locally sourcing your daily food. We provide you with detailed and up-to-date knowledge of how to best grow 100% organic foods in your garden, neighborhood, and in your workplace. Not only are hyper-local foods better tasting, healthier and more nutritious, but growing your own food also has many other fundamental benefits: • Tending to a garden can literally make you happier, due to the brain interaction of the organic soil and plant components, as well as the satisfaction to eat what you have tenderly grown yourself; • Children show far greater desire and proactiveness in eating fruits and veggies when they are familiar and educated in the food growing process; • Growing your own food is a far more sustainable and earth-friendly way to save money and all those endless trips to the grocery store; • Freshly picked fruits and veggies are an unparalleled source of high quality nutrients and minerals; • Home gardens have shown to significantly improve and engage entire communities; • An employee garden in corporate offices have shown significant increase in stress relief, work productivity, team building, overall job satisfaction (there is nothing like taking food home from your own box at work!); • Growing your own food takes you 'off the grid', and lessens the demand for less nutritious produce that come from large, polluting corporations who seek profit above quality. We can think of countless more reasons why growing your own food is the best move you can make for your future, but Facebook has a limit on the amount we can write on this section. You can better your future one plant at a time. The best part is that StartOrganic is here to help you do just that, totally hassle-free, and with a lot of fun! We’ve built thousands of gardens and gained the experience of what works and, maybe more importantly, what doesn’t! We promise you, it will be a decision you will cherish for life. Check out our website (www.startorganic.org) & StartOrganic Gardens Online Learning (learn.startorganic.org) Update: We are now also on instagram! Check out even more tips and updates on what we are up to at @startorganic!