About
New Zealand's publication for growers & good living.
Edible Landscapes.nz is a seasonal publication for edible landscapes in Aotearoa — food forests, home gardens, orchards, farm edges, and rural productive ground. It is written for people who grow food where they live and work, especially in the Bay of Plenty and wider New Zealand.
How the publication works
We publish in season editions — spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Each edition runs for thirteen weeks, with one piece of writing each week on design, soil, planting, harvest, and community kai.
The current season is on the home page. All live and upcoming seasons are listed under Editions. Subscribe once and we send a single note when a new week is published — no drip sequence, no ads.
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
Who writes this
Edible Landscapes is written 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.
Guest contributors may appear as the publication grows. Editorial voice is grounded in on-the-ground observation and seasonal practice, not generic lifestyle copy.
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
Website build and hosting by 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. Edition pieces share design thinking and seasonal practice so you can adapt them to your site, climate, and capacity.
Photography on this site is editorial — real place-based imagery, not AI-generated stock.