Edible landscapes and Sustainable gardens
(Backyard Fruit/veg and Efficient gardens)
“There is nothing quite like the satisfied feeling in watching your edible garden grow in all it’s abundance.
You are eating from your own backyard (as local as possible!), it is the freshest of fresh and so delicious compared to the bland supermarket so called produce.
An edible garden and all it’s abundance will give you a satisfied feeling of watching it grow, eating from your own backyard (as local as possible!), being the freshest of fresh and so delicious compared to the bland supermarket so called produce.”
Creating Foodscapes!
- AKA Beautiful Backyard edibles
Call Benny is wholeheartedly about helping people create their very own backyard fruit and veg shop and we can easily add food production into your established garden.
The peace of mind in categorically knowing how something has been grown that is being eaten by your loved ones to fuel their bodies (absolutely no nasties involved at all).
Most people would not even dream of putting sub standard fuel into their car!
The fact that it so common that a person (normally a developing person – a child!) does not know how a vegetable grows let alone…
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what a whole vegetable even looks like is so so scary! Not to mention how to prepare it….
Call Benny wants nothing more than to educate people. If you want to incorporate fruit and veg growing into your backyard than lets involve the kids! as well as anyone who wants to gain confidence in their ability to grow produce and have a consistent supply of their produce.
The continuing deterioration of the nutritional value of the food we put into our bodies is scary. The supermarket produce might look like a vegetable that will be good for you but your body what will not be getting what it needs.
Some of the attributes we love:
• Gifts! - Your hard earned dollar giving back to you with fresh, safe and delicious goodies.
• Properly Fresh - nothing beats the taste of something that has been just picked and walked into your kitchen (eg a tomato still warm from the sun)
• Bounty!- ability to have a heartfelt sharing of the abundance from your garden with friends/ family/neighbors/strangers because you have so much!
• Rewarding and Fulfilling - to have a beautiful landscape that doesn't just look good but tastes so yummy and is properly nutritious
• Feeding minds – the ability to see how a plant grows into food, that it doesn’t come off the shelf all packaged up.
Not to mention the savings on your fresh produce bill in the long term!
In bringing the design to life…
There can be anywhere from complete collaboration through to no involvement by the household necessary.
We can install your garden and implement your design with as much or as little involvement from the household as you desire.
We can work with the kids of the household…
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so that they can plant, watch it grow and eat there own hard work - they take ownership of what they eat (and are more likely to be open to veggies!)
Through to:
Us creating your landscape, harvesting the bounty and delivering a basket of home grown goodies to your back door for you to enjoy in the kitchen - so all you need to do is watch them grow and then eat them up.
help with keeping your garden delivering the goods
Call Benny can help you regularly to keep on top of your edible landscape and having it consistently producing for you.
Or even
Seasonal maintenance to kick start the season to make it easier for you to handle the rest.
SUSTAINABLE GARDENS - IRRIGATION, WICKING BEDS, CHICKEN SYSTEMS AND ENERGY HARVESTING
One of the key areas of creating sustainable pathways is the behaviour change around making our food supply as local as possible.
There are a few parts of the average diet that it would be too difficult to produce at home but you would be amazed at our how much of your diet a small area can produce.
Call Benny is driven by sustainability….
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and can tailor your garden to be resource/energy efficient.
One of our favourites is a wicking bed for water efficiency - we can supply and install one to suit your space.
To better understand wicking beds watch the intro video from our friends at VEG