What the Heck is Edible Landscaping?
Edible Landscaping is a wholly holistic approach to creating sustainable, beautiful and bountiful outdoor environments. Edible Landscapes are yards you can eat!
At Bountiful Backyards we specialize in creating dynamic edible landscapes. These gardens simultaneously grow vegetables, fruit trees, berry bushes and flowers while helping regenerate the land. They harvest and utilize rainwater, build soil, and provide habitat for beneficial insects and animals. They create abundance for human communities and the environments they’re tied to.
Using permaculture principles, we create site-specific, super productive, low maintenance edible landscapes. Whether you have three acres, a small lot, or a shared apartment patio, everyone can benefit from the joy of an edible landscape.
Why Edible Landscaping?
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- Edible landscapes are much more than just veggie gardens! They include evergreens, many types of flowers, and loads of color for curb appeal throughout the seasons.
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- The food you grow in your garden is infinitely fresher, tastier and nutritionally superior to store bought foods that travel an average of 1,500 miles to your table. Our gardens produce a diversity of herbs, medicine and food season after season
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- Happiness is the natural embrace a well tended garden gives back to you. At least that’s what we think. Gardening improves all aspects of health—physical, emotional, spiritual, and social.
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- Edible landscapes allow us to live in to the principles of sustainability in the here and now. By planting food forests, we leave things better than we found them: They improve water quality, build soil health, and create habitat for native birds, beneficial insects, and many more.
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- An edible landscape is an investment that pays! Did you know that a full-grown pear tree can produce hundreds of pounds of fruit for decades? It’s this abundance that allows you to share the fruits of your labor with friends and neighbors, lowering the cost of food for everyone.
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- Edible landscapes require less water and energy inputs than traditional lawns, directing that energy into the creation of something more fruitful.
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- A kid never met a pile of dirt she didn’t like. Kids are hard-wired to love composting, chasing butterflies, and eating delicious fruits and veggies. Plus, they’ll get a lot more exercise in the garden than they will on The Internet.
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- The garden is a place we can learn about almost anything the natural world has to teach us. From biology, ecology, entomology, sociology and almost every other –ology there is. The homework tastes better, too.
Get Started
Starting with a consultation where we assess the site and your goals for it, we work together to shape a design for your new edible landscape. Once we have approved a design, we do what we do best—get the plants in the ground! Contact us today to start a project that’s tailored to your needs, budget, and space.