TreehuggerTV: Edible Estates

How do you make your front lawn greener? Landscape with food instead. Edible Estates wants to tear out your lawn & replace it with a garden that is both beautiful and functional. What if keeping up with the Joneses meant you had a better tomato bush or a bigger plum tree? Edible Estates wants to make that happen, transforming suburbia one lawn at a time.

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• conservation

[davidscottlowen]

Back in the seventy's when we had the vietnamese infux,our new neighbor's the hungfulung's moved in and right away killed the lawn and planted a garden,At the the time I thought it strange,But hindsight being twenty-twenty they wre a little smarter than us Hey it's beautiful! and you can eat it!

[WorkOnWellness]

That's a fantastic idea I work in the office next to our local non-profit environmental group and across from our local non-profit eat-local group and we are the local non-profit community economic development group This gives me and idea for a partnership program! Thanks.

[motorolarules]

Very pleased to see this

[eathealthier4u]

Reply to the comments re the homeowners association. If you are at cross purposes, you may consider some decorative edible trees and plants (fruits trees), grapes & the like that can be seen mostly as greenery and still provide a "harvest"...it will hardly be noticed by the association, and if no one says anything, other things can be added gradually.

[3e4r5t6f7h8i90]

i love the idea but you must! do a soil test for heavy metals first.

[magprob]

Imagine if one whole block grew fruits and vegetables, in the front and back yards. Can you imagine how much food that would be? Then, if they put in back yard canning kitchens, a stove and a sink, and they all got together and canned...

[2wheels88]

Great Idea although I saw a video of a lady that did the same and was fined by her local council for growing veges in her front yard.Have you had any problems with council regulations?

[lifekreator]

5 dislikes...Why??

[xrnts]

in areas where people are not friendly do you educate on edible pretty flowers?

feed the people and keep annoying neighbours at bay?

love the idea - just found this so am away to look for an update hope all went well and the neighbours have edible gardens now too.

[WonderfulMrShyne]

This would be awesome,but then there's the problem of animals, and Homeowners Association, and vandalism. This can ONLY work in some specific suburbs without Homeowners Associations breathing down their neck. I know, my mom tried to make a garden once, they shut her down very quickly.

[guide2survival]

Would love for you to do a review of our seeds:)

[lateafternoon88]

Great that Fritz is getting the word out, one family, one world.

Only two bummer points on this video:

1. Where does the grass and soil go from the old lawn? Landfill, presumably. Green waste recycling will not take soil. How about sheet mulching? Did see some Bermuda Grass in there though. Hmm...

2. Is that Cocoa mulch they are using? Tsk, tsk! Methyl-Bromide fumigated, tropical country transported, Cocoa mulch? Say it isn't so!

Otherwise, garden on! Peace.