Edible Landscapes

Sustainable Edible Landscapes

Education - Design - Consultation - Coaching

Food Quality and Security
Experts in regenerative gardening can help you design healthy, sustainable, edible landscapes and organic food forests that empower food security and emergency preparedness while supporting healthier families, communities and ecosystems. At Edible Landscapes we are on a mission to make that possible for you.

A GROWING MOVEMENT
Edible landscaping, is an expression of the growing local food , self sufficiency and whole food movements.
Having food security is a huge benefit for many and it does double duty in terms of Emergency Preparedness

Beauty & Productivity
Landscaping can integrate both form and function and be restorative and regenerative to you soils and healthy productive food supply at the same time.

Designing Your Food Security
The primary principal of permaculture is partnering with Nature. In doing so you insure healthier eco systems that support healthier people. When you work with your land to feed your family, you can nourish your body while regenerating your soil and enhancing your security.

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"Our future depends on our relationship with earth. " - Garnet McPherson

Our Vision
Our vision is to contribute to the evolution of sustainable food systems and food culture around the world. An inspired future where local healthy food is available to everyone.

Our Mission
Our mission is to connect permaculture professionals with individuals, organizations, and communities around the world to empower the intelligent, sustainable and productive land use that works with nature to feed people and preserve ecosystems. Permaculture techniques and technology support healthy food security while regenerating and ensuring rich and productive soil that can support true food security into the future.

Garnet McPherson - Eco-Social Designer

Our Team
The well known Eco-Village designer Garnet McPherson coordinates our team of passionate eco landscape professionals that are working on projects across this country and beyond. We help home-owners, farms, businesses, and communities to design, develop edible landscapes that nourish the body while regenerating and renewing the land.

Sustainable Landscape Experts
Eco landscape services are available in most provinces in Canada. We represent several sustainable landscape specialists from coast to coast. With expertise ranging from landscape architecture to regenerative agriculture, landscape installation and management, to structural carpentry and stonework, arborists, orchardists, market gardeners, organic farming, micro greens, greenhouse operations, eco system restoration, fresh and waste water management, composting and vermiculture as well as intentional community development.
If you have a talent in any of these disciplines feel free to reach out to us as we are constantly building our roster of talent across the country and abroad.

Projects On Any Scale
Our network of professionals can assist you with your projects large or small. Projects range in size, scale and scope from personal projects to community wide projects. We work on large and small projects with the same level of professional attention to the clients' goals.

A Coast to Coast Network
We have a network of highly specialized experts with years of experience that can help guide your projects from concept to completion and beyond. These seasoned professionals bring decades of experience and education to your project. So were ever you are in this country chances are you can have a team of experts that can design and develop your edible landscape for you and optimizing it for your needs.

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Finding A Edible Landscape Service
Becoming more food secure and improving the quality of what your family eats does not have to be difficult. If you can not find a local edible landscaping service ask us and we will help you locate one nearest to your location.

Edible Landscape Hands On Training
We also help people learn about edible landscape design and offer local and online workshops, seminars, courses and coaching on various aspects of edible landscape design and development.
Whether for a household or a whole community, Food Forest gardening can provide food, fiber, fuel and medicine with lower maintenance and cost over time. Our educational programs focus on the art, science, techniques and technologies used in the design and development food forests and edible landscapes.
Our instructors are leaders in the fields of permaculture, organic gardening, food forestry, urban homesteading and sustainability. Our students can save years of trial and error by learning from our experienced experts.

Our programs cover a wide range of subjects. You can learn about the permaculture food forest concept and how it can be applied to create an intentional food forest in your bioregion.
A well designed food forest can offer yields and ecological services throughout the year to meet your needs and steward your local environment.

Garnet McPherson - Site Planning Workshop

Our courses provide the information and guidance to help you succeed with your edible landscape project.
Here is some of the content covered by our Workshops:

When to use an Aerial Survey on a project and how it informs the design process.
Site Analysis from soil and typography to drainage, water management and solar exposures.
Climatic considerations that effect your location
Historical plants, and cultivation strategies for your bioregion.
plant relationships that can contribute to high diversity and resilience in your food forest.
Make strategic decisions about which species to include in your design
Consideration of yields and maintenance needs throughout the year.
Site Design and Crop Planning
Compost Theory and Practice
Site Structures and Bed Preparations
Soil Structure and Amendments
Making Compost Tea
Compost Theory and Practice
Harvest and Food Storage Considerations

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Our Online Courses
Our courses and workshops start by providing an overview of the edible landscape and food forest concepts around the world. Then each of our workshop dives into specific techniques and technology for successful edible landscape design and development in your region.

Our programs look at best practices that consider soil structure, typography, water, drainage, climate, goal development as well as the botanical structure of food forests.

Our programs are currently scheduled based on demand so if you would like to participate in either our onsite or online educational programs reach out to us and let us know what your learning goals are and we will put you on our waiting list and keep you updated on our upcoming courses and workshops.

Lets Talk - Online Webinars

Earth Care
We teach about going beyond organic, employing regenerative agriculture and permaculture design systems to ensure ecological restoration and enhanced food security and biodiversity on your land.

Permaculture is an intelligent and comprehensive ecological system designed to optimize your landscape and your lifestyle.

We’d love to hear about your vision and needs, and how we might be able to help. If you let us know what your goals are and where you are located we can connect you with the right expert. We can also get you started with an free 20 Minute Phone Consultation, to get to know each other, answer your questions that might help your project head in the right direction.
We look forward to connecting!

Changing our future from the ground up with thanks to...

Our Team We want to thank our network of permaculture designers, educators coaches and mentors and landscaping crews that are dedicated to positive Eco social initiatives that supports sustainable lifestyles, multi-cultural heritage, regenerative food systems and our natural Eco-systems. We want to pledge our ongoing support to these change makers among us.

Our National Network- Our network of associate food security professionals across the country and can now connect you with specialized landscape services in the following Provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia. We also have associate designers in the USA, Mexico and Costa Rica and a pool a trained regenerative horticulturists based on three continents.

Our Sponsors: We gratefully thank the following organizations for their support:
ecoearthwalk.ca earthworksecovillage.com naturalbuildings.ca mediaartsgroup.ca turnkeywebsitesolutions.com aerialphotographics.ca sailingimaging.c om graphicexposure.ca gourmetfarms.ca

Our Respect: We gratefully and respectfully acknowledges that Edible Landscape operations take place on unseeded First Nations territories. We acknowledge and are saddened by the on-going impact of colonization.