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ਕਿਰਸਾਨੀ
Kirsaani
Regenerative lawn care for northeast Calgary. Family run, and we make our own worm castings.
We start in spring 2027. Join the list and you’ll hear first when bookings open in February. No deposit or obligation to join the list.
Or call 587 287 6452 or email info@kirsaani.com.
Lawn care · by Kirsaani
Lawn care that feeds the soil first. The goal is a lawn that needs less each season, and a soil test shows whether it’s working. Every job is quoted in writing before we start.
A high cut, never more than a third of the blade. Edged, trimmed and blown clean, with the clippings left on to feed the soil. A photo after every visit.
We need: gate access · pets inside · toys, hoses and pet waste cleared. Weekly or every two weeks, mid-May to September.
In: Cut · Nurture · Full Season
Spring: winter debris cleared and beds tidied once the ground has thawed. Fall: leaves dealt with before the snow traps them. Light leaves get mulched back into the lawn; heavier loads go in your green cart and yard-waste bags.
We need: yard access and somewhere to park.
In: Full Season · or on its own
Pulls small plugs of soil so water, air and roots can get past the compaction. Calgary clay packs hard, so most lawns here benefit.
We need: sprinkler heads, invisible-fence wire and anything buried flagged · the lawn watered the day before. Spring or fall, on moist soil.
In: Nurture · Full Season · or on its own
A thin layer of our own worm castings, half a centimetre to a centimetre, raked in right after aeration. Organic matter is what most Calgary soil is short of.
We need: nothing extra. It goes down on an aeration visit.
Status: castings start once CFIA confirms they’re allowed on paid work. Until then we top-dress with bought, labelled compost.
In: Nurture · Full Season
Cold-hardy grass seed dropped into the aeration holes in late August or September, when it takes best. Thickens thin, patchy lawns.
We need: light, regular watering for two to three weeks afterwards.
In: Full Season · or on its own
Ten to twenty small cores from across your lawn, sent to a soil lab. You get the results in plain English (pH, organic matter, nutrients and salts) and what we’d do about them.
We need: a dry-ish lawn in spring. Results usually come back within a week.
In: Nurture · Full Season · or on its own
Worm-casting tea, brewed for your lawn and put down within about four hours of brewing, while the life in it is still active.
We need: an outdoor tap and a dry forecast. Early morning or evening, never in midday sun.
Status: starts once CFIA confirms casting tea is allowed on paid work. Not offered before then.
In: Full Season
Compost, grass seed and water, plus our own castings and casting tea once CFIA confirms them. That’s the whole list.
No synthetic fertilizer, no weed-and-feed, no sprays. Nothing we use comes with a keep-off-the-grass warning label.
Common sense still applies. Castings and tea are compost-type material: let a fresh tea application soak in before the kids or the dog play on it, wash your hands after handling castings, and don’t let the dog eat them. And if you’d like a patch of clover left for the bees, just say so.
Plans · 2027
Booked as a season and scheduled ahead, so you never have to call and remind us. 2027 prices will be posted here in February, when bookings open.
The clean basic.
Price posted February 2027
Our pick
The one we’d choose: living soil.
Price posted February 2027
Hands-off, top of the list.
Price posted February 2027
These can be added to any plan or booked once. Each is priced on your written quote.
Prices are posted in February 2027 — ask for a quote.
How we price. By the time your lawn takes plus the drive to it. That’s why we keep our route tight in the northeast. Every quote is in writing, with all three plans, before you commit.
Deposits. Bookings for 2027 open in February. A deposit by e-transfer holds your spot; the amount is on your quote.
A herb for the garden. Our first seven season-plan clients of 2027 each pick a free herb plant from our own stock. Send us a neighbour who books a season, and you each get one. Dates and terms
60 seconds
Six quick questions about what you can see. “Not sure” is always an answer, and you can go back. It’s a rough guide, not a lab test.
Question 1 of 6
This is a rough guide based on what you can see. Only a soil test tells you your real pH and organic matter, and we’ll tell you if we think you need one.
Newer house? Many new builds have a thin layer of topsoil over construction fill. Organic matter often tests around 2–3% when you’d like 4–5%, which is exactly what castings and top-dressing add.
Through the year
Calgary gives you a short window for everything. The right job in the wrong month wastes your money and our time.
April – May
Winter debris cleared once the ground has thawed. The grass wakes up in late April; our first cuts are in mid-May. Core aeration goes in on moist soil, and spring soil tests go to the lab.
June – August
Cut higher in the heat and water deep, not often. When the City limits watering, a high cut and deep roots carry a lawn further. Casting tea, once CFIA confirms it, goes down early or late in the day.
Late August – October
The best window of the year for aeration and overseeding, and the one most people skip. Leaves dealt with before the snow traps them. What you do now shows up in May.
November – March
No lawn work while the ground is frozen. Winter is when we build next season: worm bins, herb starts from cuttings, and spring bookings, which open in February.
No snow removal this winter. We’d rather do one thing properly.
Shop · coming later
Nothing is for sale yet. This is what’s coming. When it opens, orders go out with a lawn visit or by delivery in our area; we don’t do pickups.
Coming once CFIA confirms
Screened and cured from our own bins, fed on Calgary kitchen scraps. Bagged in breathable sacks, never sealed plastic, because castings need air.
A thin top-dress on lawns and beds, or mixed into potting soil · store cool and slightly damp · on sale once CFIA confirms
2027
From our own bins, packed in damp bedding.
For composting bins only. Never release them outdoors.
They need a bin, bedding and 15–25 °C. We’ll talk you through setting up, no charge.
2027
Learn to build and run a worm bin that turns your kitchen scraps into castings.
Dates and price to come. Join the list to hear first.
May 2027
Mint (ਪੁਦੀਨਾ), sage, rosemary and tulsi, grown from our own cuttings.
Mint spreads underground and will take over a bed. Keep it in a pot.
Free with a season plan
The first seven households to book a 2027 season plan (Cut, Nurture or Full Season) each pick one herb plant from our own stock, handed over at your first visit.
From 1 February to 30 April 2027, or until the seventh is booked. Dates and terms
When all seven are spoken for, we’ll say so here.
Send us a neighbour. When a neighbour books a season with us and tells us you sent them, you each get a herb plant.
Coming soon
Cut at their peak and dried whole, from a dedicated bed that’s fed through the soil only.
We’re doing the food-safety side properly first, so this one takes a little longer.
Coming soon
Hardneck garlic and seed saved from plants that have already proven themselves in a Calgary season.
Join the list and we’ll tell you when there’s enough to share.
Honest note. Nothing on this page is for sale yet. We list it so you know what’s coming, not to pad the page.
About
Kirsaani (ਕਿਰਸਾਨੀ) is the Punjabi word for farming, the farmer’s work. We’re a family business in northeast Calgary, and we look after lawns the way a farmer looks after land: feed the soil, close the loop, give back.
Synthetic fertilizer can green a lawn up fast, but it does nothing for the ground underneath. Living soil holds water, feeds roots and keeps working after we’ve driven away. That’s why we raise our own worms and make our own castings. Until CFIA confirms we can use them on paid work, client lawns get bought, labelled compost.
The three lines at the foot of this page are the pillars Guru Nanak Dev Ji taught: kirat karni, honest work; naam japna, remembrance; vand chhakna, sharing. He spent his last years farming at Kartarpur. That’s the kind of work we want this to be.
Not on the list? Ask. We keep our route tight so you’re not paying for our driving, so we may say no to lawns far out of the way.
Spring 2027. Bookings open in February. Spring cleanups start in April once the snow has gone, and mowing in mid-May.
No. We quote from a map and your photos, and after that we just need the gate.
We move you to the next dry day and tell you when. You’re never charged for a visit that didn’t happen.
No synthetic fertilizer and no sprays, weeds included: we pull weeds by hand and overseed bare spots. What goes down is compost, seed and water. Castings and casting tea come later, once CFIA confirms they are allowed.
We call it regenerative: we build up living soil instead of feeding the grass from a bag. “Organic” has a certified meaning, and we aren’t certified, so we don’t claim it.
Not yet. Once CFIA confirms we can sell them, you’ll be able to buy castings on their own, with no lawn plan needed. We’ll deliver in our area; there are no pickups for now.
Tell us the same day and we’ll come back and fix it. If it still isn’t right, you don’t pay for that visit.
It will be in place before our first job in spring 2027, and we’ll send you the certificate before we start.
Not this winter.
By e-transfer. The details are on your quote and invoice.
We work on Treaty 7 land: the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Piikani, Kainai), the Îyârhe Nakoda (Bearspaw, Chiniki, Goodstoney) and the Tsuut’ina, and the Métis: Otipemisiwak Métis Government, Districts 5 and 6.
Spring 2027
Tell us a little about your yard. We’ll reply the same day, and you’ll hear first when bookings open in February. No deposit and no obligation until you choose a plan.