Our story

We started KB Home Gardens 2023 by combining Zack’s engineering background and Mariko’s green thumb and love of feeding people 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.

In late 2023, we started seeking an empty .5-acre lot in Detroit to start an urban farm capable of sustaining multiple families. Currently, we are partnering with Bees in the D and The Detroit Pollinator Center to clean up four empty city lots at 14th Street to rehabilitate the soil into a workable urban and pollinator garden.

We are also rolling out an Organic Farm-to-Table food delivery service with weekly CSA produce boxes. During the growing season, our research garden and CSA will include over 100 heirloom varieties of edible and rare seeds and support other local organic farms in Detroit and Ann Arbor, MI.

We are 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 growing a thriving, permaculture-based business is possible 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.