KRM Garden Management

A locally grown diet with no muss or fuss

The first time you start eating vegetables grown in your own backyard you
realize that what you've been eating in the past was so bad you can't go back
to it. Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But like most people you
don't have time to visit the farmer's market let alone plant a garden.

Let us build you an organic garden in your backyard, weed it weekly and
even harvest the bounty, gently placing a box of vegetables on your back
porch when we leave. Long-distance food is not sustainable and because of
oil consumption, it actually harms the planet, contributing to global warming.

The Plaza Hotel in New York city has a "100-mile menu" for locavores who
prefer locally grown food costing as little as $72.00 per person. For about
that same amount (not including one time construction cost) we can provide
that person with a months worth of organically grown veggies from their
own backyard. You don't need to turn your whole backyard into a farm (we
need about 300 Sq.Ft. 15'x20' minimum). We can design a very stylish
potager garden (French kitchen garden) complete with a fountain and seating
areas thats beautiful and functional.

So stop watering that lawn you don't use and put that water toward a
healthy diet!

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California is going into the third year of a water crisis. The Governor has
declared a statewide drought this last June and placed nine central California
counties under a state of emergency to address urgent water needs.

What are we doing? We are designing and installing water thrifty gardens that
reduce landscape water use by at least 40%. We are using drip irrigation,
weather based water controllers and high efficiency sprinkler heads. We are
working with other very talented designers specializing in California native
gardens like Jill Jacobson-Bennett of Gardenscapes by Jill. And finially we are
giving back to our community and teaching our kids about native plants, by
designing and building a California native butterfly garden at Griffith Park for
the Childrens Nature Institute www.cni.org

Give me a call so I can schedule a design consultation. Thank you for visiting
our web site.

Ken Millius, President

Above Photos. Sustainable garden and parkway. Top-- Recycled brick lines a D.G. walkway, a broken
fountain top is recycled into a small pond/water feature, drip irrigation is covered by wood chips from
trees that were removed on site. Cement blocks form a raised vegetable garden. Bottom-- Parkway with
DG strips eases the passenger step way, mixed lawn substitutes, sub- surface drip irrigation.
Design/Build by KRM Garden

Green driveway built with permeable concrete paving stones and grass joints. Permeable paving minimizes water
run-off. Water run-off into the street drainage system ultimately ends up polluting our ocean waters.
West Hollywood Condominium. Design and Installed by KRM Garden

Photos at right

Newly planted California
Native garden, with dry
stream bed and
decomposed granite
walkways. Forest floor
mulch hides drip
irrigation system.

Cahill Residence.

Stream bed, irrigation and
walkways designed by
KRM Garden, plant
selection by owner.

		Landscape Contractors Since 1976
		California State License C-27 351407
		Landscape Design and Installation
		Organic Garden Care and Clean-ups
		California Native Gardens
		Call us at (818) 768-3324