11/18/2020

Foodscaping for the Future I dream that our landscapes will represent more in the future

Brie Arthur Is THIS the best we can do? Gardener in Fuquay-Varina, NC

Author of The Foodscape Revolution Gardening with Grains

Growing Veggies with an HOA circa 2006

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Plant These Now The Carrots Celery Cilantro Dill Fennel Pollinator Parking Lot

Pittsboro, NC

• Eco friendly • Resilient • Water wise How can it Neighborhood Entries: become a source a great place to start for local food?

The Edible Entry

Swallowtail Year round gardening while Butterflies waiting for the bus

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I dream landscapes will engage the next generation

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Teach the Value of Teamwork

Cumberland Co Jr Master Gardeners

Pick EVERY Gain a sense of accomplishment while learning to flower plant for the benefit of our ecosystem you see! Grow your own bird seed Warm Season Grains: Corn, Millet, Rice, & Sorghum

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Train the next generation to be the best stewards of the Earth

I dream landscapes can be beautiful & bountiful

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Solanaceae plants have poisonous foliage

Grow Potatoes in Containers

3 months later… What is a Foodscape? 80lbs of potatoes harvested!

Garden, Foodscape, Permaculture… It’s all the same concept “GROW MORE FOOD!”

Serving the potatoes at July 4 Picnic

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FOODSCAPING: Integration of edibles in traditional landscapes & containers

Chanticleer Garden

Illustration by Preston Montague

Ros Creasy

Epcot

Grow what gets eaten!

• Focus on growing PRACTICAL food crops that are a part of daily cooking

• Grow A LOT of them to help change buying habits

Ros Creasy’s Edible Landscape • Cultivate extra to donate

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You don’t have to grow in straight lines Spicy Greens Groundcovers Arugula, Chard, Lettuce, Kale, Mustard, Spinach seed together

Broadcast seed over 1” of Soil3 organic compost Plant Sept-November Harvest all fall-spring

Foodscape Design Basics Hanging Salad Baskets

• Draw a plan to scale • Select ornamental trees, shrubs and perennials for structure • Increase landscape beds • Reduce turf, but do not eliminate it • Focus on open, sunny areas in existing landscape • Rotate crops seasonally • Focus on diversity not monoculture planting • Devote budget to quality compost- SOIL3

Grow veggies that are PRACTICAL and EASY

Spicy Greens Basil Garlic Herbs Onions Root Pouches from Soil3 Peppers Potatoes Planted 29 August harvesting 2 November

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Grains in Containers

“Thriller”

•Fill container with Soil3 •Scatter Seed on top •Mulch Lightly How much flour do you get from 3 5-gallon fabric bags fill with Soil3?

1 loaf of bread

Germinates in 2 weeks Everything you need to grow!

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Garlic & Onions deter VOLES! Porcelain Garlic Varieties and other animals for the South

Armenian Favorite Onion Varieties Calabria Georgian Crystal Georgian Fire • Onion Sets- red, yellow, German Extra Hardy white Italian Red • Egyptian Walking Onion Majestic Music Polish

Want to make a Thumb garlic cloves difference in the world? into the bed edge Just grow Garlic

Great Garlic Varieties for the South

• Asiatic: Aomori, Asian Tempest, Japanese, Korean Mt, Korean Red, Pyongyang & Tibetan

• Creole: Rose de Lautrec & Pescadero Red You can eat the foliage and flower scape

• Turban: Basque, Chengdu, China Stripe, Pluck flower scape off to increase bulb Chinese Purple, Early Portugese, Lotus, Maiskij, Morado Gigante, Shandong, Thai production Purple, Tzan, Uzbek & Xian.

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Ground Garlic Scapes

Cure the bulbs by hanging in area with good air flow

12’ bed edge produced 6 months worth of garlic!

Harvest & braid when foliage starts to die back As of 2012, China is the largest producer of garlic

59 million metric tons annually

66% world production

90% US

US AVERAGE 2,200 MILES PER PRODUCT

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Every landscape is an opportunity to grow some food in a beautiful and productive way

Filming Growing A Greener World TV

Let’s start a Foodscape Revolution Watch anytime in our neighborhood! on GGWTV.com

or check local PBS listings

DREAM BIG!

Installing Foodscapes for neighbors during the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Thank you Georgia Master Gardeners

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