Garden at the Flea

After a four-months-long study and research period to gain insights on how to improve the existing experience, the San Jose Flea Market came up with Garden at the Flea, which opened in April 2019.

Having unfolded steps away from the recently developed Berryessa BART Station, it’s a brand new expansion using aesthetics to hearken back to San Jose’s agricultural “Valley of the Heart’s Delight” aesthetic. The expansion primarily features beautiful new green spaces for attendees to enjoy, including an actual garden featuring sustainable California flowers and plants. Additionally, the space will offer a new beer garden experience, a games area and a food truck park allowing for both existing food trucks and new food trucks to be a part of Garden at the Flea and an exciting new live performance space with the capacity to host larger scale events.

HMH contributed to this project by providing design ideas for the landscape layout and expansion of the space, and consultation on the most sustainable planting options for the garden, and how to seamlessly integrate it with the entire ambiance of the overall market space.