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What Is An Edible Landscape & How Do I Create One?

Edible Landscaping

If you love taking care of your landscape and garden, why not be able to enjoy the beauty and eat it too?

In short, an edible landscape is landscaping you can eat! If you are growing plants that produce food in your residential yard, then you’ve created yourself an edible landscape. This can include anything and everything from citrus/fruit trees, to edible flowers, bushes and shrubs that produce edible fruits or seasonings such as thyme, etc.

Farmer Greg says it’s time to plant for the fall!

Now is the best time to put your plans together for an edible landscape.

Tune-In below! We share & discuss:

  • Lots of tips on how to examine your space for a garden
  • Sun and shade exposure
  • Putting together healthy soil to get your garden growing
  • and more!

Creating Healthy Soil

  • 5 Components
    • Dirt, Org Matter, Everything that is alive, Water, Air space
  • Strategies for creating healthy soil
    • Lasagna Gardening
    • Adding organic matter – 2/3 years made healthy soil
    • Composting

Easy Ways To Start Growing

  • Container gardening – Growing in pots
    • Inside or outside
    • Easiest thing to grow and most expensive to buy – herbs.
  • Plant a fruit tree the proper way.
    • 6 foot basin around tree
    • At least 6 inches woody mulch
  • Build a small raised beds
    • No Bermuda
    • Materials
    • Soil
    • Non treated wood

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Edible landscapes can create your own food forest. From simple things like growing herbs to berries and fruit trees, Farmer Greg gives you ways to get started by understanding permaculture, thinking like nature. Explaining the layers of a food forest, starting simple using containers and other tips to harvest what you like to eat!

Podcast Archive With Expanded Content and Resources

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Growing the fruits and veggies you enjoy eating starts with observing the space where you’re placing the garden. From the year round direction of the sun, microclimates and water sources, to creating healthy soil, composting and mulching. The Urban Farm’s Farmer Greg explains how you can create a bountiful edible landscape.

Podcast Archive With Expanded Content and Resources

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Farmer Greg gives you the scoop on things to consider when choosing where your garden or landscape will be in your yard: Observe your space, direction of the sun, which direction works best, sources of water to use, etc. Plus, we talk about creating an “old growth food forest” and explain the 7 layers of a food forest. We also cover “Lasagna gardening” and more tips to grow your own food!

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