Spring Garden Market 2013 - Vendors

Five Fabulous Food Trucks

Blast Off Trucks - All American, grilled cheese, mac and cheese, pulled pork and sliders
Gow Chow - Greek/Mediterranean
No Way Jose - Real Mexican Food, Not Just Tacos and Burritos
O Mi Nija - Vietnamese
Sweet and Mellow - Coffee and Desserts

 

Visit These Vendors at the 2013 Spring Garden Market

www.samsdowntownfeed.com
Animal Trapping Services
www.animaltrappingservices.com

Animal Trapping Services is a professional nuisance wildlife trapping company that does not use any poisons. They are licensed by the California Department of Fish & Game, and provide trapping services for gopher, mole, rodent, squirrel, opossum, raccoon, skunk, and snake problems. They provide service seven days a week, and will do home inspections, screening repairs and dead animal removal.

Bay Maples: Wild California Gardens
www.BayMaples.com
Bay Maples is a sustainable landscape design business focusing on native plants, water efficient design, edible gardens, permaculture, using salvaged and local materials. Native plants will also be sold.
Bundle O Baskets Offering garden stakes, rustic wood bird houses, plant holders, pots, bird feeders and outdoor pillows.
Byron's Crafts
650-797-9158
Byron will have some great woodworking items for sale: potting tables, wishing wells and bridges.
California Native Plant Society
www.cnps-scv.org
The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of California's native plants and how to conserve them and their natural habitats through education, science, advocacy, horticulture and land stewardship.
Campbell FFA Boosters, Westmont High School
www.freewebs.com/campbellffa/
Campbell chapter of Future Farmer's of America. The students from Westmont High School will sell plants and discuss their program.
California Native Garden Foundation
www.middlebrookcenter.com/cngf
Selling Native California Plants. Book Sale: Designing California Native Gardens by Alrie Middlebrook and Glenn Keator.
Carman's Nursery
www.carmansnursery.com
Plants for sale, with a focus on the rare and unusual. Specialties include bonsai starters such as small maples and conifers, herbs, succulents, rock garden plants, unusual perennials with a good selection of shade lovers, and rare fruiting plants including fig, kiwi, caper, and pomegranate. We also have collections of variegated plants, rhodohypoxis and miniature ivies, as well as many plants suitable for the backyard garden railroad hobby.
City Farmz
www.cityfarmz.com
City Farmz sells the modern homesteading items you need to raise it, grow it, store it, keep it, make it and learn it! We help the urban farmer learn about resource reduction, raising rural animals (chickens, goats, rabbits, fish, worms, bees, etc.), growing fruits and vegetables, food preservation (canning, drying, and freezing) and much more. An experienced gardener will be available to demonstrate a hot composting method using a Tumbler that yields compost in about 14 days.
Clara B Rees Iris Society
www.cbris.org
Information about Iris Society and potted irises for sale.
Cole Canyon Farms
www.colecanyonfarm.com
Cole Canyon Farm specializes in organic vegetable and herb starts for the home gardener. They have a varied collection of heirloom, easy to grow eggplant, salad and braising greens, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, and much more. Some of their most popular herbs include perennial Lemon Verbena and African Blue Basil.
Dolly's Orchids
Contact email
A local grower of many varieties of orchids offered for sale.
Geraniaceae Nursery
www.geraniaceae.com
The nursery started in 1983 and has been selling hardy geraniums and erodiums since the beginning. The collection has grown very large, up to 500 species, hybrids and color forms. They have added 150 scented leaf pelargoniums, 90 pelargonium species from Southern Africa, 90 different heirloom Regals (Martha Washingtons) and about 130 angel and pansy face pelargoniums. They mail order all over California and are happy to show off the pelargonium greenhouse and the 1 acre nursery and garden of our hardy geraniums. They are open by appointment only. We will be selling plants in the Geranium Family, including some of their 150 different scented leaf pelargoniums, many heirlooms, Regal (Martha Washington's), Angel and Pansy Face pelargoniums and specially selected heat tolerant hardy geraniums.
Gold Rush Nursery
www.goldrushnursery.com
Gold Rush Nursery specializes in plants that are drought tolerant and plants that attract birds, butterflies and beneficial insects. We grow our plants with lots of love and zero synthetic pesticides.
Growers of Exotic Plants
Steven Boboricken
650-948-3658
Exotic and unusual plants for sale.
Hand Sown
www.handsown.net
Hand Sown will be selling micro-greens, sunflower, pea shoots, arugula, basil, chard and cilantro plants. We will also be selling small container herb gardens and garden kits/gifts.
Home Composting Education Program, Santa Clara County
www.reducewaste.org
This volunteer-based educational program teaches Santa Clara County residents how to start and maintain a home compost system for their landscape, garden, and food wastes.
Jams, Garden Gems & Jewels We will be selling Yard Art made from recycled glass and handmade garden jewelry. Beautiful flowers made out of unwanted and or gently used glass and pottery. Repurposed plates, bowls and glassware are made into beautiful flowers for your garden. The jewelry, necklaces and bracelets are one of a kind works of art with an out-door theme.
John E. Stowell Dahlia Society Selling Dahlia plants and tubers. All are show quality.
Knox Garden Box
www.knoxgardenbox.com
The Knox Gardening Box is a raised self-contained gardening box, available in multiple sizes. All legs on all models are 36” (3 feet) tall. Custom special orders available.
Living Seed Company
www.livingseedcompany.com
We will be selling organic and heirloom vegetable and herb seeds.
Los Gatos Creek Local Honey
www.beeguild.org
We will be selling raw local honey, beeswax candles and comb honey.
Mike's Bird Cottages and Feeders
Selling bird houses, cottages and feeders.
Morningsun Herb Farm
www.morningsunherbfarm.com
We will be selling culinary and medicinal herbs, unusual and drought tolerant perennials. Plants for hummingbird, butterfly and pollinator gardens, scented geraniums and a wide selection of salvia and lavenders.
Mosaic Hearts
www.mosaichearts.com
One of a kind Mosaic Garden Art. Handmade birdhouses, garden decorations, stepping stones and planters. All the jewelry pieces your garden needs.
Mosaics and More
www.mosaicsandmore.com
A variety of mosaics such as one of a kind flower pots, vases and objects for the home and garden will be for sale. As well decoupaged flower pots and Brushkin and Brushart animals made from palm tree fiber are available.
Native Revival Nursery
nativerevival.com
Native Revival Nursery is a wholesale grower of California native plants. We operate a retail nursery that is open to the public seven days a week. We are dedicated to the flora of our state. Our goal is to offer both plants and information in order to allow individuals to create hardy, drought tolerant gardens which are both beautiful and require little maintenance. When you visit our nursery, take a look around our garden boutique.
Our City Forest
www.ourcityforest.org
The mission of Our City Forest is to cultivate a greener, healthier urban environment and a renewed sense of community by involving Silicon Valley residents in the understanding, planting and care of the urban forest. They will provide information to increase public awareness of the value, benefits and needs of trees.
Sam's Downtown Feed
www.samsdowntownfeed.com
We will have bee keeping and chicken information and a display. We will offer books and magazines, soil amendments, wild bird products, garden gloves and diatomaceous earth.
Super Starts
www.super-starts.com
At Super Starts, our mission is to grow and sell veggie, herb and flower starts for the home gardener with a commitment to using organic practices and promoting our local gardening community. All of our garden starts are grown from seed, outdoors in the Santa Cruz sun, fog, rain and wind, so they are vigorous, hardy and ready to go in the ground.
System Designs
We are selling insulated, zippered, floral shopping, coin size, cosmetic and all-purpose bags. We will also be selling pet screen bags and floral bookmarks.
Terra Sole Nurseries
www.terrasolenurseries.coml
PLANTS! Perennials, herbs, new, interesting, pesticide-free.
TML Custom Gift Baskets www.tmlcustomgifts.com/garden-markers.html We will be selling full color UV resistant aluminum garden markers, signage and garden lover gifts.
Valley Greens Garden Design
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We will be selling garden art and succulents designed in containers.
Valley Verde
www.valleyverde.org
Valley Verde, a nonprofit organization, providing low-income families with vegetable gardens. To support our low-income program, we also sell raised bed garden installations and maintenance.
Veggielution Community Farm
www.veggielution.org
Veggielution is a nonprofit community farm seeking to create a sustainable food system in San Jose. Their volunteer workdays, youth programs, sliding scale farm stand and community workshops give people a chance to get their hands dirty growing veggies and to learn the importance of eating and growing healthy food. We will be selling vegetable starts.
Western Horticultural Society
www.westernhort.org
Founded in 1963, the Western Horticultural Society is made up of horticulturists, botanists, landscape designers and architects, nursery people, students and avid gardeners. The monthly programs in Santa Clara County are designed to appeal to the dedicated plant lover. Items for sale: 4 inch and 1 gallon pots of perennials, succulents and some shrubs.
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