Founding Season · 2026
A small group of people sharing in a private garden at 1,170 feet in the Santa Monica Mountains.
This is not a farm stand. It is not a subscription box. It is a personal garden — one person, one hillside, one season — and a small group of people invited to share in what it produces.
The 2026 garden is built around 13 heirloom tomato varieties, 6 chile varieties, herbs, fruiting crops, melons, and a designed insectary system at 1,170 feet above Beverly Hills. Everything documented, everything grown with intention, everything real.
Over a 10-week harvest window — roughly July through September — each member receives a weekly share. A typical week:
1.5–2.5 lbs. Brandywine, Mortgage Lifter, Giant Belgium, Hillbilly Bicolor, and others. Varieties most people have never tasted fresh off the vine.
A selection from six varieties: Shishito, Jimmy Nardello, Ajvarski, Biquinho. Mild to bold depending on what the week is giving.
Genovese basil, Slo-Bolt cilantro, Cuban oregano, dill — fresh, fragrant, grown in the same living soil as everything else.
Ground cherries, cucamelons, tomatillos, eggplant, summer squash, edible flowers — whatever the season is giving that week.
Every member receives one Orange Hat tomato plant at season start — a complete miniature garden that fits on any sunny windowsill. No garden required.
Access to the garden documentation as it builds — every variety profiled, every decision recorded, the full story of the 2026 season.
Cannabis is grown here and documented here. It is not part of the Garden Circle and is not for sale or distribution.
Priced as what it is — a boutique, private, micro-CSA from a garden that grows things you cannot find at a farmers market, tended by one person who knows every plant by name.
10-week harvest season · ~$50/week · 6–8 founding members total
Six founding shares are open for 2026. This number is deliberate — it keeps boxes generous, keeps the Circle personal, and keeps the harvest honest. If the season supports it, up to two additional shares may open later.
A garden is a living thing. Weather, heat, wind, pests, and a hundred small uncertainties shape every season. Joining the Garden Circle means sharing in the season honestly.
The commitment to grow something real, tend it well, and share what it gives honestly. In a good season the harvest will be generous. In a leaner one, shares will be smaller. Nature doesn't move in a straight line and neither does a real garden.
This is not a subscription with a guarantee. It is an invitation into a season — its abundance when things go well, and its reality when they don't. That honesty is part of what makes it worth joining.
Every founding member will be invited to choose one tomato variety for the following season. In 2027, one plant of each chosen variety will be grown together in a dedicated section called Founders Row — a small living record of the people who helped the garden begin.
Those varieties and the stories behind them will be documented in the garden archive, carrying the founding circle forward into future seasons.
Six founding shares for the 2026 season. Signup details, contribution options, and harvest logistics will be added here soon. Have questions first — reach out through the contact page.
Get in Touch Explore the GardenFounding contribution: $500 · 2026 season · Santa Monica Mountains · 1,170 ft