Our story

We started KB Home Gardens 2023 by combining Zack’s background in engineering and Mariko’s green thumb to start our garden consulting business. We had big visions of helping our friends and community turn lawns into lush food forests and pollinator gardens.

For 2024, we are excited to expand our gardening project by offering weekly CSA produce boxes. We are planning our growing season to include over 100 heirloom varieties of edible and rare seeds in our research garden and CSA.

We feel deeply committed to continuing to develop our skills as organic food growers and concerned humans looking to, in some measure, mitigate the disastrous environmental impact of solely relying on commercial large-scale farming. We aim to demonstrate that it is possible to grow a thriving, permaculture-based business while becoming as energy-independent as possible.

We look forward to growing unique heirloom varieties of flowers and vegetables in the Detroit area and helping our neighbors eat better food fresh from the garden.