What is Edible Landscaping?

People used to grow their own food. Some still do, but people used to, too.

The term edible landscaping is self explanatory, but it is worth diving deeper into what it is and what it could be. It is not growing an annual garden with tomatoes and cucumbers. It is creating an everlasting landscape that grows strawberries, figs, asparagus, and more. (We can also help you with your annual garden, we love tomatoes, but this is about perennial landscaping in New Hampshire.)

There are hundreds of perennial plants we could use in your landscape that are edible. The most popular around seacoast New Hampshire are apples, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, but don't let the staples limit your imagination. Rather than another hydrangea, your property could be growing goji berries, pawpaws (a custard-like tropical fruit that does surprisingly well in New Hampshire), cherries, pears, or plums.

Edible landscaping, at least as we envision it, uses permaculture principles to design an aesthetically beautiful garden on your property that grows food year after year, with minimal maintenance.

When you plant an edible landscape, you're making a bold proclamation that we can be better stewards of the land. That a monoculture lawn riddled with pesticides is not for you. That you enjoy walking outside, picking fresh pears off trees, eating those pears, and that you'd like your future grandchildren to enjoy pears from the same tree some day.

Hiring an edible landscaper in New Hampshire is the best thing you can do for your land. You can always reach out to us to talk for free about what possibilities exist for your property.

Imagine picking your own blueberries, year after year.