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 !

12/14/2024

Are you ready for the winter solstice? ❄️
Also called the hibernal solstice, the winter solstice occurs when either of Earth’s poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. The winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, and when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky. Each polar region experiences continuous darkness or twilight around its winter solstice.
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12/13/2024

Gardening gifts for under $25! 🎁 🌱
- Gardening gloves (with claws!)
- Gardening journal
- Vintage hand-stamped silver markers to help remember what was planted

Any other gift ideas you would like to share? Let us know in the comments 👇🏼
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12/09/2024

All SMILES at our onion and garlic demonstration at one of our corporate gardens! 😁🌱
Learn more about our corporate gardening programs by visiting www.StartOrganic.org
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12/06/2024

From grapefruit to kiwi and cauliflower, here’s a fun cheat sheet on 🥝 🍐 🥬
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12/04/2024

Last FREE Happy (Holidays) Hour of 2024! We’ll be touching on winter solstice and what that means in your garden and might talk a little bit on frost prevention.
It’s free for anyone to join! 4pm PST via Zoom
Link on stories and bio.

Happy Holidays, hope to see you there! 🎄
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11/29/2024

Thankful for our community of and your support! 🌱🙏🏼🌱
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11/26/2024

Help us grow our social media presence! 🌱
💚 Just as we enjoy teaching new and seasoned gardeners how to grow their own food, we understand the importance of building community. And growing our is an integral part of that!

💚 If you believe in our mission and enjoy the content we post, please share our account with your friends and followers!

💚 1k followers is closer than ever! 😃

💚 Thank you for your support!!!
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11/21/2024

Hi! We are Troy and Josh, we founded almost 15 years ago to empower communities and businesses by making organic gardening accessible and sustainable. We specialize in creating corporate gardens, inspiring healthier living and fostering teamwork through the cultivation of local, pesticide-free produce. 🪴
We believe that we are “Better Together!” So we invite you to join our to access free , and more by signing up to our newsletter!
Visit our website (link in bio ⬆️) or DM us for more details! We can’t wait to meet you! 😄
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11/20/2024

Tag someone you’d like to enjoy this beautiful sunset with 🌅
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11/18/2024

Our corporate gardens bring together people with diverse backgrounds to work on a common goal. Many gardening friendships begin over celebrating a success or a gardening misstep 😁

👉🏽 Social connections are important because they help lower stress, improve resilience and provide support during difficult times in life.

👉🏽A strong sense of belonging lowers your risk of depression, anxiety and su***de.

Happy gardening friends! 🧑‍🌾
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11/13/2024

Today on our FREE , we’ll talk about how planting onions and garlic together can result in increased yields, flavorful crops, and reduced pests and diseases. 🧅 🧄
Join us for free via zoom at 4pm PST
Zoom link available on our stories 👍🏽
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11/11/2024

Do you COMPOST? 🥗🥚🍌
Compost contains the three primary nutrients plants need: nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. It feeds the plants that grow in this soil and it does so using existing materials, many of which are free or byproducts of the food system already. Compost also increases the number and variety of beneficial bacteria and fungi in the soil, which helps plants grow.
Have you tried it? What’s your experience composting? 🤔
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11/08/2024

Modern business at its best! Well dressed, successful, and gardening at work! 🌱👍🏽
Another happy gardener from one of our corporate gardens in California. Happy Friday friends! 🌸
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11/07/2024

What’s the plural of asparagus? 🤔
Best answer wins!
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11/05/2024

Go out and exercise your right to VOTE 🗳️
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11/02/2024

Aside from being the iconic flower of the Day of the Dead, celebrated today, Marigolds have pest-repellent qualities. 🕷️🌼
This vibrant colored flower protect tomato crops because they naturally disperse a chemical known as limonene into the surrounding air. The insects hate the smell of limonene and stay away from the Marigolds and any nearby plants!
Happy Dia de Los Mu***os! 💀
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10/31/2024

Happy Halloween 🎃🎃🎃
It’s a spooky one today at our beautiful corporate gardens! Well, more like a fun one! 👻
What are you dressing up as? Comment below and let us know!
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10/30/2024

How Can You Tell If Soil Is Healthy? Just Listen to It.

Ground-breaking “ecoacoustics” use underground critter concerts to monitor a hidden ecosystem.

“You can actually use sound to listen to the soil, and get an indication of soil health, based on the little critters moving around,” says Jake Robinson, a microbial ecologist at in Australia. He’s the lead author of a study just published in the Journal of Applied Ecology that found that ecoacoustics, or the study of environmental sounds, can not only be used to detect organisms in the soil, but also mined to identify the difference between restored and degraded land.

Now that’s music to our ears! 🪴
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New garden pest ALERT 🚨 @startorganic co-founder Josh Levine found a big and very menacing garden pest. 🤣 #GardeningTip 👉🏽If you see one like this in your garden, we suggest you: 🐶- Pet it. 🐶- Love it. 🐶- Feed it organic produce from your garden! Do you have one like this in your garden? If so, what’s its name? 🐕❤️🪴 : #startorganic #petlovers #doglovers #gardenlife #gardenhumor #organicgardening #santabarbara #doghumor

The dirtier, the better 😜🌱👍🏽 : #getdirty #greenthumb #startorganic #organic #gardenlife #gardeningtips #gardener #gardeninghumor #soil #soilhealth

✅ Want to a FREE Gardening Starter Course? ✅ Want to be part of our FREE weekly Gardening Happy Hours every Wednesday? Then sign up to our newsletter! ✔️ Visit www.StartOrganic.Org ✔️ Scroll down to Newsletter ✔️ Click on Open ✔️ Type in your email address And you’re in! We can’t won’t for you to be part of our #organicgardening #community! : #startorganic #gardening #organiclife #greenthumb #gardeningcommunity #freegardeningresources #happyhour

“Start Organic Shows Homeowners How to Plant Gardens” Reads the headline of this little #TBT to when we made it to the cover of @mercurynewsguild! 🤩 Let’s just say, our moms were proud. (And so were we!) We have since evolved to #corporategardens, but we’re still proud of our beginnings and all the education we’ve been able to share with thousands of people! : #startorganic #presscoverage #gardening #organiclife #greenthumb #plantlover #organicgardening #learntogrow #organic #sanjose #california #mercurynews

What are YOU planting in your winter garden this season? Share below! We’d love to know! 🥦 🥕 🥬 : Shot on location during one of our in-person seminars as part of our #gardeningprogram at the beautiful @baymeadowslife 🌱 : #startorganic #gardening #organiclife #organicgardening #greenthumb #plantlover #winterplanting #wintergarden

Fall planting season is here! 🪴🪴🪴 At @startorganic we hand-pick the starter plants 🌱 and seeds for all of our corporate gardens to ensure success! Would you like a corporate garden program at your work? : #startorganic #organicfood #organicgardening #organicgarden #organiclife #planting #corporategardens

The end of summer season doesn’t mean a sunflower’s job is done! Sunflowers still have plenty to give after their blooms are gone. Here’s one way to keep a little bit of “sun” around 🌻 🌱 What do YOU do with your sunflowers this time of year? Comment below 👇🏼 and let us know! : #startorganic #sunflower #growyourownfood #sunflowers #sunflowers🌻 #endofsummer #organicgardening #gardeningtips #gardeninglife

🌱From virtual classes to building beautiful gardens, at @startorganic our mission is to create fun, educational and highly rewarding gardening programs designed specifically to fit our corporate clients needs.🌱 Contact us for more information on how we can be part of your company’s employment engagement program! We listen, we execute, we garden. 🪴 : #gardening #startorganic #greenthumb #organiclife #plantlover #learntogrow #organic #employeeengagement #gardeningprogram #growfood

StartOrganic has been getting lots of press lately! Here's the first in "Homes & Gardens" Magazine! Click the link to see the article about growing squash in containers :) Troy Smo https://www.homesandgardens.com/gardens/how-to-grow-squash-in-containers

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 #organicgarden #organic #startorganic #homegrown #plantlover #organiclife #growveg #learntogrow #gardening #allveggie #vegan #gardening #gardener #healthy #healthyeating #organicbrand #kidsfood #greenthumb #wellness #employeegarden #growfoodatwork

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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!