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The DC metro area is home to many businesses and experts that provide special services for urban residents, communities, gardens, landscapes and environments. From compost pick-up and delivery, produce delivery, garden design and maintenance to bee and pest removal these local businesses can help! Whether you are home-owner, a business owner or representing an organization, below is a list of local service providers who offer specialized services to DC-area residents for a fee.

4P Foods

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4P Foods sources farm-fresh food from farms in the Washington DC local foodshed and delivers them to your office or apartment building once each week.

4P Foods

American Plant

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We at American Plant, family-owned environmentally responsible garden centers, providing superior plants, products, knowledge and services for our customers and community.

American Plant

Azure B. LLC

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We offer dedicated, professional beekeeping services & equipment, compact composting systems and a Fruit Share program around the DC Metro area & southern Maryland.

Azure B. LLC

Behnke Nurseries

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Behnke Nurseries sells a full range of ornamental and edible gardening plants, for outdoors and indoors, and everything you need to make them grow. We also have excellent landscape and florist services. Our events reinforce our commitment to bringing gardens and nature to the public.

Behnke Nurseries

Calleva

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Calleva is a business that offers outdoor adventure and education programs including green and environmental classes on their sustainable farm, biodiesel lab, wood mill and more.

Calleva

Capital Bee Care LLC

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Capitol Bee CARE is a multifaceted enterprise dedicated to honeybee research, colony establishment and management, and consulting on the care, management, propagation of honeybees.

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Chesapeake Compost Works

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Chesapeake Compost Works recycles organic waste materials into high quality compost and soil blends in both bags and bulk. Made in Baltimore, delivered to you.

Chesapeake Compost Works

City Blossoms

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City Blossoms is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy communities by developing creative, kid-driven green spaces and innovative resources, approaches, and techniques.

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Compost Cab

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Compost Cab is a production of Agricity LLC, a Washington, DC-based company committed to building healthier, more sustainable, more productive cities by offering home, commerical and other types of composting services.

Compost Cab

Compost Crew

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Simple, clean, convenient collection of compostables – food scraps, egg shells, napkins and more! – You separate, we do the dirty work! We provide the bin and compostable liner and we collect every week to bring to a local farm or compost facility to compost all of your food waste! Every 6 months, all crewmembers are eligible to get free compost back! Find out more at compostcrew.com

Compost Crew

Cultivate the City

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Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.

Cultivate the City

DC Gardens Landscaping

DC Gardens is a full service landscape company providing dependable, consistent, quality service for residential and commercial clients.

DC Gardens Landscaping

DC Greenworks

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DC Greenworks, which specializes in the design and implementation of green infrastructure, is a 501(c)(3) social enterprise serving the Washington, DC community by providing training, tools, and technologies that utilize, advance, and protect the environment.

DC Greenworks

DC Sun

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DC SUN expands access to solar, in the District through education, developing solar co-ops and building a community of solar supporters.

DC Sun

DC Vegan Catering

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Vegetable Forward Cuisine for Everyone.

DC Vegan Catering

Dejavue Trucking

Dump truck for hire to transport soil and soil amendments in DC.

District Garden

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At District Garden we pride ourselves on offering a range of services to homeowners, commercial customers, non-profits, schools, and government. Below, find a list of many, but not all, of the services we offer in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland: We offer many services in basic and custom contracting. Regular activities include rain barrels, rain gardens, outdoor woodworking (pergolas, etc), raised garden beds, landscaping services.

District Garden

Eco Honeybees

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Serving the DC Metro area, suburban Northern Virginia and Maryland, Eco Honeybees sells and installs beehives as well as provides beekeeping and hive maintenance services.

Eco Honeybees

Ecogoats

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Environmentally friendly vegetation control. Rents goats to clear invasive plants. When it comes to clearing unwanted vegetation, goats can provide an ideal alternative to machines and herbicides. They graze in places that mowers can’t reach and humans don’t want to go (yes, they love Poison Ivy). In fact, goats eat a wide range of unwanted vegetation, which on the East Cost include Kudzu, Oriental Bittersweet, Ailanthus, Multiflora Rose, Japanese Honeysuckle, Mile-A-Minute and more.

Ecogoats

Fairies’ Crossing

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Fairies’ Crossing is an independent, locally owned small landscaping business servicing the DC metro area.

Fairies’ Crossing

Fat Worm Compost

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We collect your table scraps, yard debris and other organic materials from your commercial location and transport them to a composting facility to be made into rich soil for farmers and gardeners.

Fat Worm Compost

Frager’s Hardware

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Hardware store that sells plants, gardening equipment; and supplies. Rents tools. Locally owned and operated since 1920.

Frager’s Hardware

From the Farmer DC

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From the Farmer delivers farm-fresh fruits and vegetables to your home, which means eating fresh and seasonal in the D.C. area is now as easy as opening your front door.

From the Farmer DC

Full Plate Ventures LLC

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Full Plate Ventures offers strategic planning, program capacity building, cost accounting, product profitability analysis, and communication services to clients

Healthy Living

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Healthy Living is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to educate people of all backgrounds, regardless of income, in how to plan and prepare simple, delicious, healthy meals in an environment that is supportive and safe, and which fosters community spirit.

Healthy Living

Hometown Harvest

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We are a unique home delivery service of fresh local organic fruit and veggies to MD, DC, and VA

Hometown Harvest

Leafyhead Lotions & Potions

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Farm to face: All-natural lotions & potions, locally grown & made in small batches with love in Bloomingdale, DC.

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Little Red Bird Botanicals

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Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.

Little Red Bird Botanicals

Love & Carrots

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Love & Carrots strives to revive the knowledge of growing food that was once passed from generation to generation. Since 2011, Love & Carrots has worked diligently to proliferate this knowledge with individuals, families, businesses, and organizations. We provide assistance to people who would like to have an organic garden in their yard, porch, patio, eatery, balcony, or rooftop. At Love & Carrots, we are passionate about utilizing a hands-on approach to get people excited about eating fresh, healthy food while educating them as to why going organic and eating locally are important.

Love & Carrots

Matt’s Habitats

Matts Habitats offers nature walks with a focus on identification of wild plants and edible plants and fungi and
garden installation using songbird and butterfly attracting native plants and vegetable and fruit producing plants. Available for consulting, designing, and installations.

Matt’s Habitats

Merrifeld Garden Center

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We’re a full-service garden center, nursery and landscaping company that has been serving customers throughout Northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area since 1971. With three full-service garden centers in Virginia – Merrifield, Fairfax and Gainesville – we offer one of the largest selections of plants and gardening accessories in the entire country.

Merrifeld Garden Center

Old City Farm & Guild

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Old City Farm & Guild is a green space that provides educational programming and facilitates community activities surrounding gardening, nutrition, and environmental education. It is a hub for other green organizations to cross-pollinate. It sells plants, soil, and other gardening supplies in order to support the cost of running these programs; and provides a CSA program for our neighbors, and organic vegetables and fruits for public gardens and area organizations. “Where people and Plants Come Together”.

Old City Farm & Guild

Organic Edible Gardens

Organic Edible Gardens LLC is a sustainable garden design, build and maintenance company servicing the Northern Virginia and DC Metro areas. We specialize in creating edible and ecologically-sustainable landscapes that sustain and regenerate local ecosystems while providing material and aesthetic benefits to people. Established in 2010, Organic Edible Gardens is a vibrant response to the lack of individuality, productivity and sustainability typical of Northern Virginia landscapes.

Organic Edible Gardens

Patuxent Nursery

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Patuxent features a gardening oriented gift shop, outdoor living accessories, the largest selection of trees and shrubs in the metro area, the most amazing assortment of colorful flowers, perennials, tropicals and organically grown edibles.

Patuxent Nursery

Purple Mountain Organics

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Purple Mountain offers solutions to better health by providing and supporting local agricultural systems and services. It has evolved from a vision of local food sustainability and helping our patients grow and eat their own food, to a regional enterprise helping farmers grow food by offering the highest quality tools, equipment, and services.

Purple Mountain Organics

Relay Foods

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The Healthy Online Grocery Store. Shop healthy, responsibly-sourced groceries right from your computer or mobile device and have them delivered.

Relay Foods

Rent a Coop

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Rent a Coop offers 4 Week Chicken Coop and Egg Laying Hen Rentals! We provide you with all the tools and materials you need for your rental period. We also have a purchasing option!

Rent a Coop

Rooftop Roots

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Rooftop Roots enables the development of sustainable local food systems by supporting the design, construction, and maintenance of urban gardens and farms. Rooftop Roots work with organizations to create lightweight, low cost rooftop vegetable gardens and donate the produce to local food banks.

Rooftop Roots

The Enchanted Garden

The Enchanted Garden provides design, installation, landscaping and garden maintenance services.

The Enchanted Garden

The Food Works Group

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A consulting practice focused on the development,
business planning, implementation, and oversight
of food-related project

The Food Works Group

Thomas Landscapes

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Thomas Landscapes is a full-service landscape design and maintenance firm with over twenty years of experience, specializing in professional and individually tailored work in the Washington, D.C. metro area. We offer a comprehensive design and implementation process, creating formal and informal landscapes and gardens in any a variety of environments: patios & roof gardens, townhomes and single family homes. We transform landscapes into works of art.

Thomas Landscapes

Underground Greens

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Undergroud Greens is a commerical hydroponic vertical farm in the District of Columbia specializing in microgreens and wheat grass. Undergrund Greens is selling to grocers, juice bars, community supported agriculture (CSA) programs, caterers, and restaurants in the DC metro area and also provides consultation, education services and has developed kits for aspiring urban farmers to grow their own microgreens.

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Union Kitchen

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Food brings people together. At Union Kitchen, we build community by creating a food system that propels local businesses to succeed. By offering kitchen space, catering, distribution, business and consulting services, as well as our own retail outlets, Union Kitchen is a one-stop shop for everything an existing or launching food business needs. Within Union Kitchen, you can make it, move it, and sell it.

Union Kitchen

Up Top Acres

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Up Top Acres designs, builds and operates roof-top farms on commercial and residential properties in the District of Columbia.

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Urban Farm Plans

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Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.

Urban Farm Plans

Valley Proteins

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At Valley Proteins, our business is based on the collection and recycling of inedible animal by-products from the food industry that would otherwise lead to environmental contamination. We provide prompt disposal services to restaurants, supermarkets, abattoirs and poultry processing facilities throughout the Mid-Atlantic, eastern and southwestern United States. Our clean and efficient conversion plants recycle these by-products (fat and bone trimmings; waste cooking oils; meat/poultry by-products) into high-energy feed fat and protein-rich meal products. These value-added ingredients provide the nutrients feed producers need to create superior animal feeds.

Valley Proteins

Veterans Compost

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Provides food scrap collection and composting for residential, commercial and special event pickups. Accepts food and wood chip drop offs and two locations in MD and VA. Sells organic compost suitable for organic farming. Provides composting consultations. Veteran owned and operated.

Veterans Compost

Washington Green Grocer

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We are a unique home delivery service of organic/local produce, dairy, grass-fed meat and other specialty items. We have proudly been serving the Washington DC Metro Area since 1994!

Washington Green Grocer

Wide Net Project

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The Wide Net Project is a non-profit organization that supports restoration of the Chesapeake Bay and improved healthy food access for underserved communities. We achieve this by catching literally tons of wild blue catfish in the Bay, where it is overabundant, and then selling this delicious fish. In doing so, we reduce the blue catfish population, allowing the Bay’s native animals and plants to recover from being destroyed by this non-native fish. In the communities where orders are placed, we then provide additional fish below our cost to customers to food pantries.

Wide Net Project

Zenful Bites

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Zenful Bites is a social enterprise that provides plant-based eco-catering and holistic food education programming to foster a sustainable food system.

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