Edible Landscaping in the Schoolyard
If you want to start a food garden with your students but don’t have the space in your schoolyard for a traditional vegetable plot or fruit orchard, try your hands at edible landscaping: designing with plants that can do double duty as ornamentals and crops.
In this article the National Gardening Association highlights the basics of edible landscaping, and offers a couple of related lessons to whet your students’ appetites for designing with healthy eating and aesthetics in mind.
Lori Bushway | Articles for the public, Resources
The trouble is that there are not that many native edible landscaping plants, but who doesn’t like a challenge. Exotics are always fun to dabble with.