Edible Landscaping: Good Looking and Happy Eating!

Edible Landscaping: Good Looking and Happy Eating!

Landscaping in private homes is a wonderful thing. Not only adding characters to the neighbourhood, it also offers a perfect opportunity for families to get together and bond. Probably because the deep agricultural background, Asian families are usually very fond of the idea of growing some sort of vegetables in their backyard, even on the tiniest piece of soil.

What if I tell you, we can combine these two wonderful things and make something even more fantastic? Edible landscaping has caught up in recent years as an alternative to conventional household landscaping. It functions not only as a cosmetic project to look at, but also a viable secondary food source for average families.

In Susannah Shmurak's blog, she offers some very informative insights of how to do proper multi-layer landscaping which is both sustainable and edible. Her theory revolves around mixing different genres of edible plants to a comprehensive food forest: from over story tree layers to under planted shrubs, and eventually descend to vine-root based vegetables. Susannah's specific recipe is designed for the seasonal climates and biological diversities of one region, which may not be directly copied to Sydney environment. But despite the regional climate differences,  the idea of multi-layered household food production is definitely applicable in Australia suburban context.

Reference: 

http://learn.eartheasy.com/2016/05/edible-landscaping-101/

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