The Nursery
Food plants, herbs, and other useful plants!! Grown for the Bay Area climate, priced so anyone can garden, and sold to fund everything else we do.
Open Friday 11am–6pm · Saturday & Sunday 11am–5pm
Sacramento St. at Oregon St., Berkeley
What we grow
We specialize in plants and trees that actually thrive here, chosen so that first-time and previously unsuccessful gardeners can gain confidence and succeed.
We strictly adhere to organic practices, although we are not certified organic. We'll always tell you exactly how something was grown; just ask.
Annual and perennial food plants
Vegetables and fruit for every season of the Bay Area year.
Culinary and medicinal herbs
From everyday kitchen herbs to the harder-to-find useful plants.
California natives and habitat plants
Especially for butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.
Drought-tolerant plants
Beauty and function on our actual water budget.
Plants for fiber, dye, cleaning products, and a myriad of other uses
The “other useful plants” we're known for.
More than plants
- Compost and soils for indoors and outdoors
- Down to Earth organic fertilizers
- Organic pest control products
- Pots in many sizes (new and used) and tomato cages, seasonally
On the tables this week
We don't keep a full availability list; we're too busy growing. What we can give you is the real thing: the latest photos from our tables, straight from our Instagram. If something catches your eye, come by; the tables are always better in person.
Photos from our Instagram. Follow along @spiralgardensofficial (opens in a new tab)
Affordable on purpose
Keeping prices low isn't a sale, it's the mission. Affordable plants mean more neighbors grow food, and every dollar you do spend funds the Community Farm, free workshops, and free answers to your gardening questions. When you shop here, you've already given.
Bring us your questions
Every plant on our tables comes with free advice. We answer thousands of gardening questions a year, at the tables and now on the site too: what to plant this month, why last year's tomatoes sulked, which natives your hummingbirds want.