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One-to-one
Seasonal Mentorship
6 × 60 min
One-to-one
Seasonal Mentorship
6 × 60 min
One-to-one mentoring
Six monthly calls through one growing season, with a garden plan, a sowing calendar and notes
with Hannah Reyes, kitchen garden designer
$1,190
6 sessions includedAbout the sessions
Most kitchen garden questions come up between April and August, and a book can’t look at your plants. Seasonal Mentorship gives you six private calls with Hannah Reyes over one growing season: the first builds a plan for your beds and a sowing calendar, the next five follow the garden month by month. Between calls, you email photos and questions and get answers within two business days.
Hannah has designed and run kitchen gardens for homes and restaurants in Southern California for fifteen years. Your plan starts from what your household eats, how many hours a week you can give the garden and how your beds sit in the sun. The calls then follow the season: seed starting and hardening off, spacing and staking, watering in the first heat, aphids and bolting lettuce in early summer, and the August sowings that carry the garden into fall. After each call you get written notes with the tasks for the month ahead.
Mentoring shortens the learning curve, but weather, pests and the time you can give the garden still decide the harvest. What it changes is the number of costly mistakes, like setting tomatoes out two weeks early or sowing all the lettuce on one day, and you finish the season with a plan and notes to reuse next year. It works for a first raised bed as well as for an established plot that has stopped producing well.
6 × 60 min · private video calls
Book online right after purchase. Sessions can be used within 6 months and moved with 24 hours’ notice.
Book your first call
Right after purchase you get an email with a booking link. Choose a time for the first call in your own time zone; you book the other five as the season goes.
Send your garden
Before the first call, send photos and measurements of your beds, your ZIP code, what your household likes to eat, the time you can give the garden each week and what went wrong last year. A soil test helps but isn’t required.
Six calls through the season
The first call sets the plan and the calendar. In the next five, Hannah looks at the garden with you through your phone camera, checks what’s growing and adjusts the plan for the month ahead.
Notes and email in between
After every call you get written notes with the next month’s tasks. Between calls, email photos and questions; Hannah answers within 2 business days.
Your mentor
Hannah Reyes
Kitchen garden designer
Has designed and run kitchen gardens for private homes and restaurants in Southern California for fifteen years. Writes about soil, rotations and planting calendars.
Kitchen Garden
October planting for zones 6–7, with depths and spacing: garlic and shallots, spinach, lettuce and radishes, fava beans where winters are mild, and cover crops for empty beds.
Hannah Reyes · · 5 min read
Kitchen Garden
How to put together a drip system for a home vegetable garden, how much water the beds need in midsummer and how long to run it, with a worked example.
Hannah Reyes · · 4 min read
