Chicken coop
Photo of a mid-sized rustic drought-tolerant and full sun hillside stone vegetable garden landscape in San Francisco for summer.

Redwood Timber Vegetable boxes
Inspiration for a traditional landscaping in San Francisco.

Inspiration for a side yard concrete paver landscaping in Santa Barbara.

A small bistro patio set in a rose garden of roses relocated from shady areas of the landscape makes a nice spot to view the growing vegetable garden.

"The Escher-Stella Garden" landscape design by Paul Hendershot Design Inc. PC | Alicia Cattoni for paulhendershotdesign.com
Photo of a side yard concrete paver landscaping in Santa Barbara.

design: Studio TOOP, together with Marilies Tuinontwerpen location: Amsterdam (Noord), NL status: built in 2007, Kooter Hoveniers foto’s: 2012, Jolanthe Lalkens The challenge for this garden in Amsterdam Noord was to create ample space for a vegetable garden while preserving the view and providing enough structure that the garden also looks good in the winter. Also, the goats and chickens in the back of the garden needed to be easily accessible, even when the grass was wet. Studio TOOP achieved this by creating a path that isn't a path and at a same time emphasizing the width of the garden with polder-esque lines.

William Carson Joyce
Design ideas for an industrial vegetable garden landscape in San Diego.

Rodney Rose, Autumn Skies Landscapes
Design ideas for a traditional landscaping in San Francisco.

These beautiful raised beds in a Brentwood garden yield abundant baskets of produce every week of the year. The edges of the beds that line this center path are planted with Herbs for easy picking, fondly named "Herb Alley" by the resident children.

Edible landscaping encompasses much more then adding some veggie beds to one’s property. Creative layouts and material usage can incorporate year-round vegetable harvests in an aesthetically pleasing way. Perennial fruit trees, along with bushes and herbs, create a lush space full of beautiful, colors, textures, smells and tastes. Searching out and experimenting with different and rare varieties of edible plants keeps home gardens interesting. Edible landscaping gives access to food at its freshest, when it is most nutritious, and offers many more options than supermarket produce sections—also cutting down on transportation and packaging impacts. From edible estates to food forests, or simple integration of garden-based food production, Sweet Smiling Landscapes has the knowledge and experience to help home owners harvest their own bounty.

Copyright 2015 Glenna Partridge
Inspiration for a transitional landscaping in Vancouver.

Vegetable Garden
Photo of a large partial sun backyard vegetable garden landscape in Austin.

Using cinder blocks and farm troughs to create growing beds for herbs and vegetable. New fence for chickens. And flagstone with DG to create more entertaining space.

Vegetable Garden
Design ideas for a large partial sun backyard vegetable garden landscape in Austin.

Vegetable Garden Area, Petaluma
Design ideas for a traditional landscaping in San Francisco.

Rodney Rose, Autumn Skies Landscapes
Design ideas for a traditional landscaping in San Francisco.

This is an example of a side yard concrete paver landscaping in Santa Barbara.

William Carson Joyce
Photo of an industrial vegetable garden landscape in San Diego.

Vegetable and flower garden with Olla irrigation system. Water seeps through the walls of unglazed 'Olla', these vessels can be used to irrigate plants. The Olla is buried in the ground next to the roots of the plant to be irrigated. The Olla is filled with water, which gradually seeps into the soil to water the roots of the plant. It is an efficient method, since no water is lost to evaporation or run-off.