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Edible landscaping – Foodscaping

Would you love to grow your own food and have an edible garden, but don’t know how to start?
We are happy to help you design and maintain your land!
Whether you’re cultivating a cozy backyard nook or managing expansive fields, we are here to guide you in every step of your permaculture edible gardening journey.
Besides growing a lot of food, it’s also nice when it looks great and gives you a feeling of peace and tranquility.

We work in Central Portugal in the region of Santarem, Coimbra and Leiria.

Growing your own food food

It is not just fun, it’s also very beneficial for your mental and physical health! Click on nutrition advice for more information.

You can enjoy your own grown food on a daily basis, even when you are a lazy gardener!
We will start to investigate on how much time you would like to spend on “working” in the edible garden, the biggest job could be reaping what you have sowed. With our edible landscaping or foodscaping designs we use techniques like permanent agriculture, food forest, regenerative landscaping, covering the soil with mulch what improves and protect the soil and use cover crops.

We like to design using Permaculture principles, Permaculture is way of designing in a regenerative and sustainable way, where all elements should have multiple functions. An element could be a fish pond for example, what will have as function water to attract frogs and small birds, you can grow flowers, herbs and fish in the pond. It’s important to use the right combination plants like flowers, annual and perennial plants, scrubs and trees on multiple layers to deter pest and lure beneficial insects. Permaculture is the concept of utilizing land, resources, people and the environment in a manner that doesn’t produce any waste and encourages the use of closed loop systems seen in nature.
Closed loop systems, when speaking about the environment, refer to the ideal where nothing should be wasted.

It can be understood as the growth of agricultural ecosystems in a self-sufficient and sustainable way. This form of agriculture draws inspiration from nature to develop synergetic farming systems based on crop diversity, resilience, natural productivity, and sustainability.

Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems thinking.

Some people call it agroecology or applied ecology. It includes organic cultivation in where all plants grow in harmony with each other.

Food forests or edible gardens are examples of a well-designed combination of edible plants on a piece of land.

It is a self-sufficient system where little human intervention is required.

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