The land is doing more than growing food. Let's price it.
An economic and capital plan built for your actual garden, organization, geography, and market.
Community gardens can be funded like charity and evaluated like agriculture. A garden can do more than either frame captures.
A garden in a place with no grocery store may be food-access infrastructure. A garden that employs teenagers may be workforce infrastructure. A garden holding a vacant lot is land strategy. A garden where elders teach is cultural continuity.
Each of those has a different payer. It's easy to ask only one of them, and miss the rest.
- Growers and land stewards being asked to justify the land in dollars
- Community gardens running on volunteer labor and small grants
- Urban agriculture projects near a health system, school district, or developer
- Organizations who own or control land and have never treated it as an asset
- What your garden actually produces, beyond pounds of food
- Who in your geography has a documented reason to finance any of it
- What earned revenue appears realistic given your climate, land, labor, and market
- What the land itself represents — ownership, lease, tenure, and what that enables
- What is already being financed near you that the garden could legitimately be part of
- What would distort the purpose, and should be declined
Where the evidence does not support a conclusion, you get that too — named, not filled in.
- A revenue and capital plan sized to the actual site
- Earned-income routes worth pursuing, with pricing logic
- Institutional and public funding routes near your work
- What the land position enables or limits, stated plainly
- An implementation sequence with what to do first
- What not to do, and why
Examples of the kinds of things that surface. Yours will be your own.
- A garden producing below market-scale volume while serving as the only fresh-food point for surrounding blocks — an access argument stronger than the production argument being made
- A youth work crew running each summer with no employment or workforce framing attached
- A land tenure arrangement that would have to change before capital improvement could be financed
- Find Who Can Pay™from $795The plan and the researched capital routes
- Build My Capital Case™from $1,500The written case, financials, and materials
- Get Me Ready for the Room™from $2,500Preparation for the city, health system, or funder
Lower price means narrower scope, not lower rigor.
- Our garden is small. Is it worth this?
- Size affects which routes are realistic, not whether the analysis is worth doing. Small sites can carry stronger access and land arguments than large ones.
- We do not want to become a farm business.
- A legitimate position, and the plan will respect it. Not every route is earned revenue.
- We do not own the land.
- That matters and the plan addresses it directly. Tenure shapes what can be financed, and it is better to know before you build.
Build My Garden Revenue Plan™ · From $795, scoped
What you leave with
An economic and capital plan for one garden or land site: use, local market, partners and the capital routes that fit.
Covers: One garden or land site, one geography
The files you receive
- Accessible PDF plan
- Editable budget and use table
- Capital routes with their conditions
Format
Accessible PDF plus editable tables
Your work
- Share land status, agreements, costs and current activity
- Confirm what the community will and will not accept
DSG's work
- Work the land use, market and capital routes together
- Name what depends on a decision you have not made yet
Timing
Within 15 business days of complete intake
Human-reviewed work begins when intake is complete, not when payment clears. If anything needed is missing, we ask for it and the clock starts when it arrives.
Check this schedule against your deadline before you pay. If your deadline does not fit, tell us first — we would rather turn the work down than miss it.
Corrections
One correction round within 7 calendar days
What this is not
- Desk-screened local market reading, not a commissioned market study
- No land-use, zoning or legal opinion
- No promise of revenue
Money back
Because this is human work performed to order, it is not refundable once the work has started. If you are unsure whether it fits, contact DSG before you pay and a person will tell you plainly.
DSG mapped the capital routes around the garden. Several require financials and an evidence base you do not currently hold. Build My Capital Case™ builds them before you approach anyone.
Not sure this is the one?
Start with Know the Room™. Tell us who you are approaching or what you are trying to get done, and we will point you at the right work.
Know the Room™ · $175The self-directed tools are finished work in their own right. Use one, keep the output, and stop there if that is what you needed.