The Food Forward Garden: A Complete Guide to Designing and Growing Edible Landscapes [Hardcover]

Ideas for beautifully growing vegetables, herbs, and fruit all over your yard (Better Homes & Gardens)from award-winning landscape designer Christian Douglas
 
What if, instead of relegating our vegetable patch to a remote corner of the backyard, we brought it forward? What if we integrated edibles into our decorative landscapes, letting vegetables, herbs, fruits, and berries share prime real estate alongside our patios, pools, even our front walkways? Equal parts inspiration and instruction, and filled with an abundance of ideas and information, The Food Forward Garden is a lushly illustrated guide to how we can make better use of our outdoor spaces without sacrificing style. In this comprehensive manual, award-winning landscape designer Christian Douglas shows us how the intrinsic beauty and seasonal rhythms of edibles bring a new level of purpose, meaning, and stunning visual pleasure to the home garden.

Christian Douglas is a landscape designer and the founder of Christian Douglas Design, where he creates extraordinary culinary gardens for private clients, and the Backyard Farm Co., where he and his team of urban farmers teach homeowners around the world how to grow food. Christian was awarded the California Home+Design Award for landscape design and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, California Home+Design, Sunset Magazine and other major publications. Follow him on Instagram at christian_douglas_designForeword by Tyler Florence
Introduction
The Principles of Food Forward Design
 

PART I: THE GARDENS

The Forager’s Garden 
Spotlight on: Water Features 
The Urban Garden 
Spotlight on: Container Gardens  
The Cottage Garden 
Spotlight on: Trellising