Arthur - The Foodscape Revolution: Reinvent Your Landscape by Combining Edible Plants with Foliage & Flowers for Year-Round Beauty and Bounty

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Brie ArthurandThe Foodscape Revolution

Brie Arthur is my go-to expert for all things foodscaping. Her experience, talent and passion for designing edible landscapes is second to none. Im constantly amazed by Bries ability and vision for making any plantable space attractive and productive.

~ Joe Lampl, Producer and Host of Growing a Greener World

The Foodscape Revolution is aimed to empower people living in neighborhoods with outdated HOA restrictions that say no food in the front yard. Brie Arthurs design strategy is a way to follow the rules while making the most of the landscape that exists.

~ Rosalind Creasy, author of Edible Landscaping and Recipes from the Garden

The term revolution is used far too casually today. Very seldom do we see a trend become a movement, then become part of our vocabulary. Brie Arthur has not only been the leader of the foodscape revolution, she is also its face and voice. This is one book that needed to be written.

~ Allan M. Armitage, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture, University of Georgia

Few garden movements have combined the burgeoning desire of people to take control of their food sources while still creating beautiful and functional garden spaces, even as our landscapes are shrinking. Brie is leading the way in the foodscape revolution with bounteous borders of vegetables and flowering perennials, grains and showy shrubs and she makes it all seem so easy.

~ Mark Weathington, Director, JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University

This book ushers in a new era of gardening one where beauty and food grow side-by-side and creativity is not just appreciated, its encouraged. The Foodscape Revolution shows us how to make our landscape sing!

~ Jessica Walliser, horticulturist, radio host, and author of Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden and Good Bug Bad Bug

No longer must food gardening be relegated to a separate part of the garden and ornamentals and flowers to a foundation planting. In The Foodscape Revolution, Brie invites us to join her cause: marrying all plant types together as one big happy family, with the homeowner being the recipient of all its glorious bounty.

~ Maria Zampini, President, UpShoot LLC

Brie Arthur transformed her own yard into a beautiful edible haven. Now, she urges us to consider how much food can be grown in the open mulched spaces in our own yards or on school campuses, in parks, outside office buildings, senior centers and new housing developments.

~ Ira Wallace, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, author of The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast

Read just a few pages of this exciting new book and you will be energized to try new things in the garden like, why not use lettuce as an edging or grains as a thriller component? It makes so much sense to do away with the old notion of keeping your edible garden in the backyard.

~ Diane Blazek, Executive Director, National Garden Bureau

Brie Arthurs foodscaping wisdom and creativity shine through in this indispensable book. Integrating edibles with ornamental plants maximizes the purpose of cultivating the Earth in such a way that aids our species in lasting into the indefinite future.

~ Will Hooker, Professor Emeritus, NC State Department of Horticulture and Certified PINA Permaculture Designer and Teacher

In The Foodscape Revolution, you will discover a cornucopia of ideas to transform your garden into an edible wonderland! Youll be inspired by seeing the impact that foodscaping can have on your life, your community and your environment.

~ Jared Barnes, Ph.D., Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University

Thanks to Brie Arthur, our school garden at Dorothy L. Bullock Elementary School has become a foodscape haven for the children and residents of Glassboro, New Jersey. Through Bries devotion to helping our children fall in love with gardening, our innovative programs have been recognized by the NJ Department of Agriculture and won the very first Jersey Fresh Farm-to-School award. Bullock Childrens Garden has become a model for other schools.

~ Sonya Harris, Special Educator & Lead Coordinator of The Bullock Childrens Garden/Glassboro Public Schools Garden Initiative

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Foodscape

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Foodscape

Revolution

Finding a Better Way to Make Space for Food and Beauty in Your Garden

Brie Arthur

The Foodscape Revolution

Finding a Better Way to Make Space for Food and Beauty in Your Garden

Copyright 2017 by Brie Arthur

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages for review purposes.

ISBN-13: 978-1-943366-18-7

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016958269

CIP information available upon request

First Edition, 2017

St. Lynns Press . POB 18680 . Pittsburgh, PA 15236

412.381.9933 . www.stlynnspress.com

Book design Holly Rosborough Senior Editor Catherine Dees
Editor Morgan Stout Horticultural Editor Katie Elzer-Peters
Illustrations Preston Montague

Photo credits:

All photos Brie Arthur, except for the following:

Katie Elzer-Peters: pages 24 (left), 44 (right), 62 (right), 64 (left), 70 (left), 73 (left), 74, 76 (left), 77 (left), 83 (right), 84 (left), 85 (left), 89, 118, 135, 136, 137, 150, 152, 153, 155 (right); DL Anderson, page 187; David Arthur, page 146, Tower Garden, page 143; Mark Hyland, page 111; Joe Lampl, page 189; Troy B. Marden, pages 114 and 119; Carol Reese, page 139; Jeremy Schmidt, page 168; Prudy Smith, pages 29 and 151; page 63, Bok Choy, js (Wikimedia, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Bok_Choy.JPG)

Printed in Canada on certified FSC recycled paper using soy-based inks

This title and all of St. Lynns Press books may be purchased for educational, business or sales promotional use. For information please write: Special Markets Department . St. Lynns Press . POB 18680 . Pittsburgh, PA 15236

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To my loving husband, David Arthur,
and neighborhood garden helpers Aidan and Abby DelGatto.
Your inspiration can be seen in every landscape
that embraces beauty and bounty.
Thank you for your unwavering support,
hard work and laughter.

Here is my own Foodscape. I used a scaled drawing converted from my property plot plan as my base map.

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