El Dorado Hills, California

About

Little Garden Things is a working garden studio in El Dorado Hills, California. We make farm-to-table products from herbs and fruit grown close to home, ours and growers' nearby. We also design gardens, coach gardeners on their own properties, and teach the practice to anyone who wants to learn. The operating principle runs through everything: many varieties side by side, each one paying its way.

Products are what we make from the harvest. We source herbs, fruit, and flowers from our own beds, our daughters' gardens, and growers nearby who tend the same way we do, in-ground and without chemicals. Many varieties side by side, each one picked for what it becomes: Rosemary Simple Syrup, Linen Lavender Drawer Sachets, herb baskets put together as the season allows, and the syrups, sachets, teas, and tinctures coming in as the harvest fills out the catalog.

Services apply the same practice to other people's properties. Garden design draws on the polyculture principle, planning beds and plantings that work together the way ours do at home. Our current design engagement is with the HART Foundation, alongside private design work as the calendar allows. Garden coaching is for people whose garden is struggling or stalled, or for anyone starting from scratch and trying to get it right. We assess what's happening, name the issue, and offer alternatives. Soil, sun, water, succession, plant choice, whatever the garden is asking for. Workshops are on the way, with embedded education already running through the care cards and recipe cards that go out with our products.

The standard is a gardener's standard. The syrup tastes like the rosemary it came from. The sachet still smells like lavender in year two. The garden that gets designed looks like it was always there. The struggling garden turns around. Our work goes out to landscape designers and retail partners putting their name on it, to gift-givers folding it into a basket, and to people coming directly for products or help. The work is the same either way.

Grown for you. Made by us.