Frontyard Food Forest
After a major renovation, this front entrance was degraded, eroded, and mostly gravel and weeds. It left something to be desired, both aesthetically and biologically.
After assessing our clients' needs and desires through a rigorous (yet flexible) diagnosis and design process, we began building soil, stabilizing slopes with boulders, planting on contour to encourage passive rainwater harvesting, creating food forest guilds (edible perennial companion plantings), and creating a meandering stone and driftwood path.
Now, this front yard food forest will provide thousands of pounds of fruit, nuts, berries, herbs, medicine, perennial vegetables, cut flowers and more over its lifetime. Figs, mulberries, blueberries, huckleberries, strawberry, apple, plum, pear, jujube, yellowhorn, currants, gooseberries, lavender, sage, daylily, hosta, fuki, oregano, thyme, grapes, chilean guava, and peach are among the hundreds of edibles planted here.
This edible entranceway is only a fraction of the landscape we designed and installed over the past months. As it matures, our wonderful clients will feed more than just themselves, aiming to supply local farm-to-table restaurants, and host a farm stand for the local community.
