Self financing by garden-care services for individuals

A Fleur de Pierre has signed an agreement with a home help service, which allows to supplement their traditional services (household and other services) with our landscape skills.

We provide landscape services, using agroecological practices, to diverse audiences, especially elderly and / or low-income people.

Services: trimming hedges and shrubs, weeding, weed control, routine maintenance of plants (remove spent flowers, raking, bring fertilizer ...), landscaping, construction of dry-stone or masonry walls, pruning ...

Type of Tool
Good Practice Target Groups

Objectives

What makes it a good practice or tool?

Solidarity and environment :

These are often older people who contact us because they can not maintain their own gardens, because of their physical limitations.

Most are single women because of their lack of experience in gardening, combined with their desire to properly maintain the garden. Our interventions also help perpetuate their memories and their experienced in the garden.

The majority of affected customers have low incomes.

Those concerned with our highest rates are more interested in the agro ecological side (these environmentally friendly techniques become more widespread).

Not to mention that this activity created by the social link availability, and listening to stakeholders.

And also, this activity creates social link by the availability and listening skills of the technicians.

Materials

Implementation

Evaluation

Evaluation

We have not created an assessment tool specific, but we evaluate the achievement of initial objectives by:

  • Satisfactory customer feedback,
  • A constant customer base,
  • The renewal of the partnership with our partner “La Populaire”

Tips

Aims and Outcomes

AIMS

Provide to a wide audience, landscaping services:

  • According to our values ​​of solidarity, by a differential tariff depending on household incomes,
  • The implementation of agro ecological techniques

OUTCOMES

Most customers pay the lowest price. This highlights a need for landscape services for people who would not have the financial means to afford the services of traditional landscape contractors.