BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 8, 2023
Imagine a world in which instead of mowing your yard, you harvested dinner. That’s the idea behind edible landscaping, a practice that creates spaces devoted to small-scale food production with a variety of plantings. “It’s a lot like just what it sounds like,” said Jesse Watson, principal designer at Midcoast Permaculture in Maine. “Different plants yield different crops [and] the landscaping piece is about expanding the traditional forms of color and texture to include edibility, medicinal value and ecological functions.”