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Brown’s Greens started in 2016 as a small gardening business owned and run by Zach Brown. He installed vegetable gardens, chicken coops, and performed some general landscaping services for his clients. After completing two certificates in Urban Agriculture and Landscape Contracting, and after several years of in-field experience, Zach decided to take Brown’s Greens to the next level. Starting in 2019, Brown’s Greens is now a full fledged Urban Agriculture, Landscaping, and Composting company. You can discover more details about each of these services in the services tab above!

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

— May Sarton

Zach Brown was born in Washington DC and had his early childhood in Dale City, Virginia. His father was in the Air Force and the Brown Family moved to Colorado Springs in 1999 and that’s where Zach went to middle and high school. He was a determined kid, always holding high expectations for himself and filling every minute of his time with extra curricular activities including year around track and cross country, playing in rock bands, going to Russia on missions trips with his church, and summer jobs of all sorts. He grew up in a good, strong, down-to-earth family. His parents are musicians in Colorado Springs and his older brothers and their families live close by as well.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.

— Alfred Austin

Zach spent his young adult years swinging back and forth between long traveling adventures and odd jobs. He learned and saw a lot as he traveled and worked across the world, but years of transient life began to wear him down and dreams of home and hearth grew in his mind. In 2013, he moved back to his home town, Colorado Springs, and started growing some roots and developing a career. He tried his hand at several different trades through his travels, but his experiences as a farm hand in Iowa sparked a particular interest in agriculture and the green industry. He continued to gain experience in green industry jobs in Colorado Springs, including work in garden centers/greenhouses and as a foreman for a landscaping company. This new found passion and experience eventually lead Zach to conceptualize starting his own business, and after much planning and schooling, materialized into Brown’s Greens. 

 

Zach is married to Brittany Brown who owns and runs a music studio out of their home. She teaches private violin lessons to a great many kids in Colorado Springs and plays classical violin as well as fiddle in several groups around town, including The Chamber Orchestra, Celtic Mountain Band, Smith House, and others. She also helps out a lot with Brown’s Greens, handling much of the office work and garden maintenance as well. Zach and Brittany love their life together and they are proud to call Colorado Springs their home. 

 

Brown’s Greens offers an immediately useful and accessible way to begin composting. Their curbside composting service is excellent and is really helpful in creating steps toward a more sustainable lifestyle. Coupled with a recycling service, we’ve been able to reduce our regular trash pick up from weekly down to once a month. Nice to see the Colorado Springs community stepping up to do good and lead out as an example for others in the state. - P. WHITNEY
We love the compost service! And of course, the garden they made for my veggies - truly beautiful and functional! - DOROTHY NELSON
Brown's Greens built four raised beds for my vegetable garden -- about six by three feet each -- and filled each one with their best planting mix. As a result, my crop yield has been increased at least four times over. Zach's knowledge of soil content and composition has been especially helpful to me, since the ground in my backyard consists mainly of hard clay. I couldn't be happier with the results! - JIM WARE
Very pleased with Brown's Greens services. My husband and I started to realize how much food waste we were producing from our juicing regimen and wanted to find a better option than the trash. Brown's Greens was simple to set up, very reasonably priced, and they've been right on time each week to pick up. - NICOLE BIRD
1. I always thought about composting but really didn’t know how to get started. I used Browns Greens for some landscaping (which they did beautifully and on budget!) and noticed their compost service on their website. I’ve been enrolled in their weekly bucket pickup/drop off service for a month now, and I love it. They are prompt, the fresh buckets are nice & clean, and it feels amazing to make good use of my food and garden scraps instead of clogging up the trash. I’m excited to receive my compost when the time comes.

2. *UPDATE* Just had to add to this review since we had Browns Greens return for more landscaping. I asked Zach for ideas to replace all the grass in the front yard, and he drew up a beautiful plan. His crew did all of the work in two and a half days, and it’s stunning. We have a dry riverbed with beautiful stones, and boulder-studded berms on either side planted with native shrubs and perennials, all set up with drip irrigation to help them flourish. (The attached photo doesn’t really do it justice — the plants are still babies, and the berms are higher than the pic makes them appear.) The crew is friendly, hard working, and they all clearly love their jobs. I cannot say enough wonderful things about everything this company does. - MANDY HOUK
Brown's Greens is a great local company! Zach Brown and his team planned and created a wonderful landscape for our backyard, including beautiful borders, mulched areas, and raised beds which have given our family veggies for 3 years. The work was done right, quickly, and the price competitive. We highly recommend Browns Greens! - TERRI MOON
Great customer service. Always friendly. Dedicated to making the world a better place. - NICOLE LANE
Easiest, affordable, professional company that makes home composting so accessible!! Highly recommend them for your home composting needs! - CAROLINE MARGARET
I love Brown's Greens! I have wanted to do composting for a while but just don't have the time to do it on my own, and it is so inconvenient to take it somewhere else. But now it is picked up at my house once a week! They are always consistent in sending weekly reminders and picking it up. And I receive compost back to put in my garden, and my garden is loving it. So glad I can participate in cutting down on landfill space, improving air quality, AND in blessing the ground and the city in this way. Thank you, Brown's Greens! - ALISON WARE
We were thrilled with the outstanding service and quality of work that we had done by Brown's Greens. The prices were reasonable and the work was done right on schedule. We can heartily recommend Brown's Greens for any outdoor landscape or garden project! - CAROL FORSETH