Our Story
Three generations. Fifty years in the dirt. One family that didn't give up.
Perfect Gardens didn't start as a store. It started as a way of life — and my parents built it.
My father earned his master's in agriculture from Cal Poly. My mother managed a workforce of five to ten thousand people at the peak of her career. Back in the 1970s, together they engineered lettuce-harvesting systems that took output from a little over a thousand pounds an hour to more than sixty-five thousand. That's the kind of people I was raised by. I grew up watching how respected they were, and I decided early that if I was ever going to be anything like them, I'd have to walk the same path.
So I did. After the military, our family had the chance to grow again — and we went all in.
By 2012 we were running a 9,000-square-foot hydroponic store, and before the market turned we had built the largest indoor growing facility in the state of California. Those were the gray-area years for the industry, and we ran as hard toward doing it right as anyone could. But in a world without clear rules, doing it right wasn't always enough. When the market turned, the store closed. We sold the brick-and-mortar to another company — and just like that, the thing we had built was somebody else's.
A lot of people quit after that. We didn't.
For a few years, honestly, we drifted. We knew we wanted to build something online, but we didn't chase it — not until the world stayed home in 2020 and we finally sat down and got to work. We started filming. We taught what we knew. And it turned out that teaching — passing on three generations of growing knowledge — was the thing our family had always been best at.
The channel took off. The community grew. Today Perfect Gardens reaches growers in dozens of countries, and we're more focused than ever on the thing that started it all: education, heritage, and helping people grow.
The comeback isn't complicated. While everyone else gave up, we stayed. We're still here, still building, still in it as a family.
That's the whole story. We didn't give up — and we're just getting started.
What we stand for
Our mission: We Help You Grow.
We go above and beyond helping someone with growing advice. We feel it's our duty to make sure your growing experience is successful — because if it isn't, it doesn't benefit anyone.
Our vision: Turn sustainable gardening into the status quo.
Our current agriculture landscape is missing something vital to our health. You can't see it in the crops, but you can see it in the people. We need more minerals in our soils to put more nutritional value into our food. Sustainability and science should work together to help everyone on the planet.
Our values. These aren't wall decorations — we run decisions through them. We call it a values filter: if something doesn't match up, we simply don't do it.
- Honesty — Be truthful with our customers, each other, and ourselves, even when we're at fault.
- Teamwork — There is no you, me, they, or I. There's only us, working together.
- Respect — Give the respect you wish to receive.
- Loyalty — Stay dedicated and trustworthy to our customers and our company.
Growers helping growers
We work alongside horticulturists and hands-on growers and pass that experience along, so the advice you get here is backed by real grow rooms rather than a catalog. We've coached 50+ grow rooms a year, and everything we recommend is something we've actually used.
Our goal is simple: help our customers succeed with their indoor gardens, backyard gardens, and farms. Your success and ours are the same thing. A great place to begin is with your own fruits, vegetables, and herbs — there's money to be made, good times to be had, and great people to meet.
Common questions
How can I follow along?
Subscribe on YouTube — 1,200+ videos of real grow rooms, real results, and no paid sponsorships.
How do I reach a real person?
Call 1-719-781-7804 or email admin@perfectgardens.com. A grower answers.
Can I work with you on something bigger?
Get in touch by phone or email and we'll talk through the project and figure out the best way to do it together.
What can I expect from you?
Professionalism and integrity in everything we do. We're honest people looking to work with others who share the same values.