GROW YOUR OWN
There is no denying that growing your own fruits and vegetables requires water, but you may be surprised to know a well designed foodscape can substantially reduce water use when compared to turf grass. We have foodscaped our entire front yard transforming our landscape into a beautiful food producing oasis that produces the most delicious... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/i3d3atUX8ng In this video we give a tour of our frontyard foodscape in May of 2020. The video includes lots of tips for growing vegetables as well as fruit trees without using a lot of space, and discusses dealing with pests in May. Featured throughout the video are examples of closely spaced vegetables and flowers... Continue Reading →
What is foodscaping? What are the benefits of foodscaping?What inspired Foodscaping Utah? This video answers those questions, features footage of beautiful foodscapes, and highlights some of the amazing work our volunteers have done foodscaping our community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NslLUjYqiA Foodscaping Utah is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization of volunteers that help people get started growing food. Thanks to... Continue Reading →
Foodscaping provides front-door access to the most nutritious, best tasting fruits and vegetables possible With the start of the new year and health-related resolutions on the minds of many, we thought it would be timely to consider dieting trends and how foodscaping enables healthy living. Every year U.S. News releases a fresh batch of diet... Continue Reading →
Some time ago an aspiring gardener at a Foodscaping Utah volunteer event asked what we do about insect pests. The timing of the question was a little unexpected because we had been talking about other things. Without really thinking about it I said, "we plant flowers". Of course we do manage pests in other ways... Continue Reading →
Fallen leaves are an incredibly rich source of organic matter. If you have deciduous trees in your community, use as many of those wonderful pieces of organic nutrient-dense fertilizer that you can get your hands on! Every fall we put up a sign in front of our foodscape that says "we want your leaves"...and...lo and... Continue Reading →
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