Columbus Foodscapes
Raised Bed Gardens & Edible Landscapes
Yard-To-Table, Made Easy
We’re Columbus Foodscapes, and we’re on a mission to make growing your own organic food abundant and joyful.
Whether you’re looking to start from scratch or sprucing up an old garden, we’re here to turn your edible gardening dream into a reality. Our goal is to give you confidence every step of the way, remove the confusion and overwhelm, and create a personalized gardening experience that reflects your personal goals and budget.
Regardless of your experience, working with us means professionally-crafted gardens, hands-on gardening services, years of expertise, and step-by-step guides that guarantee you delicious, year-round organic harvests just steps from where you live.
Ready to transform your space into an edible oasis? Let’s get started with an hour-long New Garden Consultation where we learn about your vision, discuss the basics of organic edible gardening, survey your land, and draft a proposal.
How It Works
② Make
Whether you have an existing garden or want a brand-new one, you’ll begin with a one-hour New Garden Consultation. Once we meet, we can draft a proposal customized to your space, goals, and budget.
Once you’ve approved the proposal, our team of experts install a garden that is beautiful, productive, and works seamlessly with your space, or offer the support to help you install it yourself.
① Meet
③ Maintain & Mentor
We offer a variety of 100% organic maintenance options that range from one-time set-up sessions to full-season, hands-on support.
Join us for our full-season Columbus Backyard Garden Club or for Garden Coaching sessions that will support you with the tools and knowledge to grow a bounty of organic food and help troubleshoot any setbacks along the way.
A Master Class for Vegetable Gardening in Ohio:
The Columbus Backyard Garden Club
April - October, 2024
Specific to Central Ohio
8 Live & Recorded Classes
Weekly Newsletters with PDF resources, deep-dives, and bite-sized garden demo videos
Live Q&A sessions with instructor
Private online forum with cohort to share & discuss
One-on-one feedback and support from instructor
A-La-Carte add-ons for more support
ENROLLMENT CLOSES APRIL 30, 2024
Our Gardens
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New Garden Consultation
$150
All of our clients start off with a Garden Consultation: an in-depth & in-person 60-90 minute session that offers foundational gardening knowledge, a site analysis, and a services proposal designed to fit your budget and needs.
We’re experts in transforming your space into a productive edible garden, and we’ll work with you every step of the way to make your garden dreams come to life. Whether you have an empty yard or an existing garden, we come with the expertise and know-how to help you grow a bounty of fresh, organic produce.
Garden Coaching
Let’s foster that green thumb! Our one-on-one Garden Coaching sessions are tailored to your interests & garden’s needs and remove the overwhelm and confusion behind organic gardening, all in the comfort of your backyard.
Garden Maintenance
Book us for a one-time session to give your garden a make-over and get growing right away or subscribe to our Garden Maintenance services to keep your garden gorgeous year-round. .
All Garden Maintenance sessions utilize all-organic methods, are customizable, and include a detailed report of what we did during the session.
For Groups: Hands-on Classes & Workshops
We offer classes on a variety of topics related to organic growing food in Central Ohio. Classes and workshops can be offered both in-person and virtually and for groups both small and large.
While we offer a curated list of our most popular classes, workshops, and presentations, we’re always happy to customize content to best fit your groups interests and level.
Why Start a Garden?
FAQs
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A foodscape is a landscape that produces food. Similar design principles can be used in foodscapes as in landscapes, like color, texture, size, and accounting for existing landscape elements and structures.
When we say the word “foodscape” we specifically mean raised bed kitchen gardens (gardens in boxes, elevated from the ground that grow food), and perennial in-ground gardens (gardens not in raised beds in which the crops grow back year after year, like raspberries or grapes).
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We design, install, and maintain kitchen gardens (elevated raised bed gardens) and edible landscapes (in-ground, perennial gardens). We also teach people about how to grow food and maintain their edible gardens through one-on-one Garden Coaching and group classes & workshops.
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Our training and expertise is specific to vegetable gardens, so we generally decline requests to maintain non-food gardens. However, we often include flowers in our designs and are happy to work with existing ornamental landscaping to ensure compatibility.
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We offer over 80 varieties of fruits and vegetables, carefully selected for size, color, ease-of-growing, and other factors (you can check out the list of our most popular fruits, vegetables, and herbs in our Columbus Foodscapes Planting Calendar).
In larger gardens, we often plant perennial crops that come back year after year like strawberries or asparagus. Our gardens often include a combination of edible flowers, herbs, vegetables, and fruits.
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The cost of new garden installations range very widely depending on factors like size, square footage, plant selection, material selection, level of installation, and more.
We are happy to work within your budget to help you reach your goal.
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Of course! Most of our clients enjoy at our maintenance services at least quarterly, and we also offer one-on-one garden coaching to help you learn about how to grow food in your garden. Many of our clients are brand-new gardeners. You’d be surprised how much you can learn in your time with us!
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We serve all of Franklin County including Columbus and the surrounding suburbs and neighborhoods (Dublin, Worthington, Hillard, Gahanna, Bexley, New Albany, Grove City, etc). For areas outside of our service area, we charge a modest transportation fee for consultations and services.
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Yes! Flowers add beauty and provide wonderful function for your garden by attracting pollinators like bees and butterflies. We love to include edible flowers to plantings (they add a gorgeous pop on salads) and cut flowers for bouquets.
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You can grow food even on the teeniest patio, as long as there’s enough sun! Generally, the smallest garden we’ve installed is around 15 square feet; we also can help with patio and potted gardens, which tend to be much smaller than raised bed gardens.
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Absolutely! If you have a vegetable garden already that just needs a little help troubleshooting and TLC, we can get you started with a new garden consultation. If you’re wanting additional support beyond that initial meeting, we can put together a custom proposal for organic garden miantenance, garden coaching packages, and more to help you transform your space into a magical (and delicious!) oasis!
Meet Katie Carey
Katie is a Columbus-Native, certified Master Gardener, Master Urban Farmer, Permaculture Designer, and Garden Educator on a mission to support her community in edible gardening with a decade of organic gardening and farming experience.
She started Columbus Foodscapes in 2020 after seeing how many of her community members desperately wanted to grow food, but just didn’t know where to start.
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