Edible Landscape Project

In the spring of 2014 I ripped up my front lawn and planted an edible garden. My house faces south leaving my back yard in shade for much of the day. As an avid vegetable gardener, these were not ideal growing conditions. With the removal of diseased road side trees, the front yard was now in blazing sun all day.  I had to take advantage of the sun!


The plan was to create a garden that was both beautiful and productive. I have no city restrictions on what I plant in my urban front yard but I wanted to create a garden that demonstrated how beautiful food production could be and challenged peoples idea of what a vegetable garden had to look like.


In 2015, the garden consists of sixty varieties of plant, with over fifty of them being edible. The landscape is producing fruit, seeds, vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. Best of all the garden is sparking discussion with neighbors and drivers by about home food production and all that lawn care!

This what the front of my house looked like before the project.

To see all the posts about this project, click here.

For more photos and information about the plants used in this project, plus my design map. visit my my Pinterest Board.

I wrote a feature story about the garden for The Providence Journal newspaper and you can see the online version here.

Sue