Autoentrepreneur garden, is it possible?

Professional gardening and self-employed (or microenterprise) status

Ah, how hard it is to find a status that matches the activities we offer!

Can you be a self-employed gardener?

When I created my company, the person from the CCI who followed me asked me the main question:

• What do you want to do?
• Everything! Do creation, maintenance, but also training and write articles for commercial blogs.
• Stop! Stop fire, stop mildew! (She doesn't tell me like that…) In a self-employed business, you can't be a landscaper, but only gardener as part of personal service . You are not dependent on the MSA (Mutualité Sociale Agricole) but RSI

I have a feeling that the Administration is going to annoy me... it's going to annoy me deeply.

• So what?
• The difference between a landscaper and a gardener is the work carried out. As a self-employed company you only offer routine maintenance in the gardens; pruning, mowing, weeding... You forget all the creative work, earthworks, garden plan, pruning. And you don't produce and you don't sell plants. You stop at “personal service”

In self-employment, gardening is an activity that must be associated with other proposals such as DIY and household maintenance. We only charge for “personal services” work.

RSI, MSA?

What you have to understand is that gardening is in principle covered by the MSA. So the self-employed gardener, affiliated with the RSI, can only claim small gardening AND DIY jobs, but in no case creation.

Raking leaves, considered "small gardening" for self-employed status

When you want to start a business, everything comes into play:What do I want to do, compulsory insurance, protection, retirement, civil liability...

Do not forget that originally the status of the autoentrepreneur was made for salary supplements; it's ideal when you're already an employee (or compensated by Pôle emploi, which is my case) and it's worth it because, even with a turnover of 0€, there are costs to pay …unless waived.

For more information, and I imagine you have a host of questions in store, take a look at the autoentrepreneur portal. Their video will tell you more about how to become self-employed.