What is a FOODSCAPE?
Foodscaping is simply producing food from your home landscape. Access to fresh, healthy, low cost, home-grown food can be a significant financial benefit to a family budget. The rising cost of food coupled with recent concerns regarding food safety have caused many people to consider growing their own food. In addition to the financial benefits, growing your own food has a huge nutritional value. A bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables growing right outside your door is not only good for your health, it is a beautiful sight to behold as well.
Every FOODSCAPE is unique and developed around the household’s needs and eating habits. Intensive vegetable production is at the center of most FOODSCAPES. These vegetable producing areas may be supplemented with small fruit (berries), orchard fruit (apples, pears, plums figs, etc), as well as with poultry for eggs and/or meat or other small animals, and ornamentals. Composting is an important element in any productive garden. There are many composting options to choose from that will best fit your FOODSCAPE’s need and your family’s requirements.
FOODSCAPES can be developed in their own area of the property, or can often be integrated into existing landscapes. Vegetable gardens are beautiful additions to the home landscape. We offer a variety of services and plans to help you create and make the most of your Home Food System. We are dedicated to help you create your own FOODSCAPE, whether you are looking to have a few beds for vegetables or are interested in developing a complete Home Food System.
It is difficult to produce all of your food needs yourself…so we always encourage you to purchase any items you can’t grow yourself from your local farmers and Farmers Markets. Vegetables, meat, dairy, eggs, baked items, fruit, seafood, mushrooms, honey, ornamental and edible plants – you name it and there’s a way to purchase it locally. We’d be glad to share with you ways to find any of these items from your local farmers.