Grow Your Own Food!
Food can be grown in all kinds of spaces. From pots on the deck to integrated landscaping that is food and not just ornamental, you can utilize your space to grow more food and medicine!
Often people don't want to tear out their yard area (playspace or dog space) and feel they don't have any room to plant food! Adding perennial food plants can be as easy as replacing those landscape plants surrounding your home with edibles and medicinal plants such as blueberries, rhubarb, echinacea, black and red currants, anise hyssop, monarda, aronia, and so on. Perennials are also easy to manage and don't require a lot of work.
A foodscape design can be integrated from the start as you plan your new home landscaping, it can be retrofit into your existing landscaping, or it can be new garden areas designed into your open spaces. Foodscapes can be organically shaped beds planted as permaculture or polycultures with mulch and borders that looks beautiful and functions as food. Foodscapes can also be designed as spaces cleaved from your edges or by expanding landscaping areas to incorporate more perennial and annual plants.
And finally, foodscapes can completely replace your lawn so that you grow food and medicine and not turf. I love also designing spaces with grass pathways that can easily be mowed using a scythe or push mower, look lovely and inviting, and yet minimize the need for water as the pathway is a part of the integrated beds and gets nourishment from the surrounding food plantings.
Contact me for more information if you are interested in working with me to design your food and medicine garden!
Often people don't want to tear out their yard area (playspace or dog space) and feel they don't have any room to plant food! Adding perennial food plants can be as easy as replacing those landscape plants surrounding your home with edibles and medicinal plants such as blueberries, rhubarb, echinacea, black and red currants, anise hyssop, monarda, aronia, and so on. Perennials are also easy to manage and don't require a lot of work.
A foodscape design can be integrated from the start as you plan your new home landscaping, it can be retrofit into your existing landscaping, or it can be new garden areas designed into your open spaces. Foodscapes can be organically shaped beds planted as permaculture or polycultures with mulch and borders that looks beautiful and functions as food. Foodscapes can also be designed as spaces cleaved from your edges or by expanding landscaping areas to incorporate more perennial and annual plants.
And finally, foodscapes can completely replace your lawn so that you grow food and medicine and not turf. I love also designing spaces with grass pathways that can easily be mowed using a scythe or push mower, look lovely and inviting, and yet minimize the need for water as the pathway is a part of the integrated beds and gets nourishment from the surrounding food plantings.
Contact me for more information if you are interested in working with me to design your food and medicine garden!
