by Khrysti Smyth Have you noticed that backyard chickens seem to be popping up all over the place lately? You might know people who have their own and rave about…
Edible Landscaping
Edible Garden Spotlight: Dirt Therapy and a Client’s First Garden in Cochecton, NY
by Adrianne Picciano The majority of my vegetable garden installs consist of me designing, building, planting, and turning the finished product over to my client to take care of. Sound…
School Garden-to-Table Initiative Yields More than Fresh Veggies
by Andrea Knowles Students at Nashoba Valley Technical High School in Westford, MA, transformed the entrance to the school’s restaurant, The Elegant Chef, from a compacted dusty lawn area to…
Book Review: The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden
Written by Karen Newcomb Published by Ten Speed Press, 2015 Reviewed Anyone planning a vegetable garden for the first time can find it a daunting process. Seedlings…
Eco-Answers from the Pros: Reining in Raspberries for Wildlife
We have raspberries growing in our field and would like to promote their growth to feed the wild birds and mammals. Can you tell me “best practices” for mowing the…
The Case for Native Medicinal Plants in the Landscape
by Todd Lynch In the wellspring of DIY that has made permaculture and edible landscapes household terms, native medicinal plants are outside many conventional conversations about edibles. Although institutions and…
Three Hardy Additions to the Edible Landscape
by Dan Furman At Cricket Hill Garden, we have sought over our two decades of operation to introduce American gardeners to Chinese tree peonies. In addition to these imperial flowers,…
Pink Pearl Apple: An Heirloom Surprise
by Joy Albright-Souza Revised from an article originally published in The Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 2013. Designing edible landscapes is a privilege. During the design process for an edible garden I…
Growing Permaculture at Greenfield Community College
by Shannon Dry and Abrah Jordan Dresdale Permaculture can be explained as a two-step practice: 1) observing the beneficial relationships, patterns, and processes found in ecosystems, and then, 2) mimicking…
Patty Laughlin Integrates Edibles into Every Project
by Kathy Litchfield A version of this article first appeared as a post on the NOFA AOLCP website. Every landscape Patty Laughlin plants has at least one low-bush blueberry. She…
A Cornucopia of Experiences: Teaching Gardens in the Schoolyard
by Marilyn Wyzga With watering can in hand, a first grader earnestly speed-walks across the grass, finds a pepper plant in need of a drink, and slowly drains her can…
Edible and Landscape-worthy Native Plants of New England
by Ellen Sousa and Russ Cohen Edible gardening generally brings to mind beds of lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, and other foods with origins in distant continents. As natives of often…