Edible Landscape Design

You don’t need a traditional vegetable garden to grow your own food (although I highly recommend it.)

You can get the satisfaction of home grown food even with a simple, strategic edible garden design. There may be more possibilities for your unique yard than you realize. 

Better yet, most are perennial plants that will produce for you year after year, with low maintenance needs.

Edible Garden Design Options

Edible landscape plans can take many different forms based on your priorities.

Most of them fall into two main categories.

Elegant, yet also Edible

An edible landscape plan doesn’t need to sacrifice aesthetics. I love to help homeowners incorporate varieties that are as beautiful as they are useful. Many native plants are edible as well!

Some of my favorite edible and medicinal plants for Minnesota and Wisconsin gardens are:

Red & White Currants

Hybrid Hazelnut

Common Milkweed

Black Elderberry

Ostrich Fern

Serviceberry

Beebalm

Nannyberry Viburnum

Where to Start

Perennial Food Gardens

Some clients are focused more on function and maximum productivity, turning their yard into a self-sufficient food forest. These designs frequently incorporate permaculture design principles. With an advanced permaculture design certificate and 15 years of experience, these are some of my favorite projects.

Perennial food gardens often incorporate:

Nut Trees

  • Hybrid Chestnut

  • Hickory

Fruit Trees

  • Apple

  • Tart and Hardy Sweet Cherry

  • Plum

  • Hardy Peach

  • Pear

Fruiting Shrubs

  • Raspberry

  • Currant

  • Elderberry

  • Blueberry

Perennial Vegetables and Herbs

  • Cutleaf Coneflower

  • Sunchoke

  • Lovage

  • Asparagus

  • Rhubarb

Ground Cover

  • Clover

  • Violets

  • Wild and Improved Alpine Strawberries

If you’re interested in a professional, detailed edible landscape design for your Minnesota or Wisconsin property, please fill out the form below to initiate a free phone consultation.