by Resilient Communities
Basically, foodscaping is landscaping with food. Rather than plant flowers, trees, and shrubs that only look nice, we grow plants that look nice and provide us with a sustainable food source.
Not only does this provide us with food year after year, but we know exactly what we are eating. On average, food travels 2,000 miles from farm to plate. We can do better. Foodscaping means our food only has to travel 200 feet from our garden and onto our plates. Which would you prefer?
Many people think of food gardening as long, boring rows of plants. This is how farming has been done for a long time. Fortunately, we do not and should not follow this pattern for our own food.
Foodscaping allows a variety of edible species to live in relative harmony without the need for extensive human intervention.
Does landscaping cost more than foodscaping? Or is it the other way around? Actually…it’s neither. Both disciplines cost about the same. The reason foodscaping is just now gaining popularity is because people were unaware of how “hands-off” a properly set up permaculture system can be.
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