My Urban Gardener

About My Urban Gardener

El Cerrito is a city of compact lots, and My Urban Gardener treats every one of them as a chance to grow something. On the streets fanning out from Fairmount Avenue, the work runs from the practical to the personal: lawns mowed and edged, beds weeded and mulched, vegetable boxes and border plantings kept producing through the long mild season. Late light here is generous — June evenings stay soft well past dinner — and a tended garden earns that light. The aim is a yard that gets used, not just looked at: a place to pick herbs, sit in the shade, watch the fog feel its way over the ridge. That is urban gardening as this business practices it, one small square of the city at a time.