Edible Estates -- SoCal seed of urban change

The Edible Estates project is part of the Gardenlab program, established by Fritz Haeg in 2001. With the garden as a metaphor and actual laboratory, it supports ecology based initiatives in art and design.

Edible Estates is an attack on the American front lawn and everything it has come to represent.

Edible Estates reconciles issues of global food production and urbanized land use with the modest gesture of a domestic garden.

Edible Estates is an ongoing series of projects to replace the American front lawn with edible garden landscapes responsive to culture, climate, context and people.

Edible Estates is a practical food producing initiative, a place-responsive landscape design proposal, a scientific horticultural experiment, a conceptual land-art project, a deThe Edible Estates project is part of the Gardenlab program, established by Fritz Haeg in 2001. With the garden as a metaphor and actual laboratory, it supports ecology based initiatives in art and design.