About
Food forests · orchards · gardens · kai resilience
Edible Landscapes is a digital magazine and public home for edible landscapes in Aotearoa — food forests, vege gardens, residential orchards, farm edges, and rural productive ground — written for people who grow food where they live and work.
What we mean by edible landscapes
An edible landscape is any place designed so food, shelter, soil, and people reinforce each other over years, not just a summer of salad. That includes a backyard food forest, a street-edge feijoa hedge, a kiwifruit block with shelter and understorey, a school garden, or a smallholding that folds stock, trees, and vegetables into one system.
We focus on:
- Food forests
- Home & residential gardens
- Farms & orchards
- Rural productive landscapes
- Kai / food resilience
The website and the magazine
The website is the front door: who we are, how to browse topics, how to subscribe, and how each seasonal edition fits the year. The magazine is the reading space — open an issue cover and you step into that edition’s features, departments, and photography.
Editions follow New Zealand seasons. Winter is structure and soil. Spring is planting pace. Summer is harvest, shade, and water. Autumn is store, seed, and trees for the decade ahead.
Who writes this
Edible Landscapes is written as a seasonal magazine voice from the Bay of Plenty — Te Puke and the wider western Bay — where orchards, lifestyle blocks, and home gardens sit in the same landscape. The publication grows from practical design work in food forests, silvopasture, regenerative farming, and community kai resilience, not from a distant content desk.
Who publishes it
Published by Vector Group Charitable Trust (CC45966) — Envisioning Sustainable Communities Creatively. It sits alongside the kai / food resilience network:
- Kai Resilience — regional kai hub and grower tools
- Food Forests NZ — food forest practice and places
- Food Resilience School — learning pathways
- Vector Group — charity umbrella
Site build and hosting are associated with Te Puke Digital.
What we are not
We are not a product catalogue, a certification body, or a substitute for local advice on biosecurity, spray programmes, or council rules. Articles share design thinking and seasonal practice so you can adapt them to your site, climate, and capacity.