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Edible Landscaping
Imagine stepping out your door with a basket and leisurely strolling around your yard, all the while harvesting enough ingredients to make a whole meal upon your return to the kitchen. From your edible landscape, you pick a few vine ripened heirloom tomatoes, dig up some sweet potatoes and a ginger root or two, pinch off some fresh basil, cut some shiitake mushrooms off your logs, and snip the leaves of a variety off greens for a salad or sauté. Your entire meal came from less than fifty yards from your dinner table, and still contains all the vital nutrients usually lost during the long shipping and storing process of store bought food. Your walk was not only relaxing but productive. Your edible landscape helps to reduce your carbon footprint by reducing the amount of lawn that needs to be mowed, and also is cutting down on the amount of food that needs to be shipped from around the world to feed you. The mission of Abundant Edible Landscapes is to help people transform their yards into paradise gardens that provide food and create connections with the natural world. Putting your yard to good use by growing your own food will provide you a sense of self sufficiency and provide you the ability to share the surplus with your friends and neighbors, and open the door for a wide range of opportunities, and effectively strengthening your community.*