While on a long car ride I noticed many dilapidated, overgrown, abandoned small gardens in people's yards. Then, a business idea struck me! I could clean up folks' gardens as a seasonal business. My services would include basic stuff: weeding, tilling, fence repair, shed organization and even possibly planting basic starter plants to get the owners back on track. I think this could be really helpful for busy homeowners and folks who are not able bodied enough to spend hours toiling the earth.
Now I know this is nothing new. But I don't see any gardener businesses serving my area, so I think there's an empty niche to be filled. I'm a young adult with an entrepreneurial spirit and I think this dream could grow to even building and planning gardens and chicken coops. One day I could even apply for a grant and get a small truck for my business.
For now, I'm community college student who dreams big and could use a bit of extra cash. I'm thinking this spring I can start in my neighborhood as an experiment, I'll go door to door asking if anyone needs my services. Now for the issue of what to charge, time and materials seems the most straightforward. I bounced this idea off my dad, and he thought $20 an hour was on the low end. Minimum wage is $15 now here.
Does anyone have experience doing this sort of thing? how much should I charge for the basic services I listed above?
