Shizen Edible Landscapes
Edible gardens designed for beauty and abundance.
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Design - Plant - Maintain - Educate
Landscape Design
Designing edible landscapes that truly belong.
Shizen designs thoughtful, site-specific plans that integrate food production into your landscape—so your garden supports health, sustainability, and adds everyday value while naturally belonging in its surroundings.
Fruit Trees
Expert installation and care for healthy, productive fruit trees.
Shizen provides expert fruit tree care focused on long-term health, balanced growth, and reliable harvests. From pruning to seasonal maintenance, we care for your trees so they thrive—and produce—year after year.
Vegetable Gardens
Beautiful, productive vegetable gardens—built and maintained for you.
Shizen designs, builds, and maintains vegetable gardens. From seasonal planting to ongoing care, we create gardens that produce reliably and fit seamlessly into your landscape.
Hands in the Soil Personal Education
A guided, hands-on learning experience in your own garden.
Add Hands in the Soil to any Shizen service for a calm, practical walk-through of your edible landscape. We show you how to care for, prune, and harvest your plants—right when it matters—so you can feel confident without taking on the full workload.
Shizen Full Service
For those that want it all without the effort
Complete care for your edible landscape.
Shizen Full Service is our all-inclusive edible landscaping service. We design, build, plant, maintain, and harvest your garden—so you can enjoy fresh food from your yard without lifting a finger.
From the first planting to each seasonal harvest, everything is thoughtfully handled for you.
Beautiful landscape. Abundant food. Zero effort.
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An edible landscape is simply the use of food-producing plants in a thoughtfully designed outdoor space. This can include fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, herbs, hot peppers, or anything else you would like to eat. Rather than separating “garden” from “yard,” it blends nourishment and design into one intentional environment.
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We create and care for edible landscapes—thoughtfully designed outdoor spaces that blend beauty and nourishment. Our work includes personalized planning, professional installation, and ongoing stewardship tailored to your lifestyle. Each service is offered as a standalone option as well.
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Our pricing is tailored to each project because every landscape, property, and level of support is different. Services may be selected individually or combined into a comprehensive plan, and we provide clear proposals after an initial consultation so you know exactly what to expect.
Call us at (310) 367-6037 to discuss your project and receive a personalized estimate.
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We offer a high-touch, fully personalized experience focused on creating and stewarding edible landscapes that truly fit your life. As a small studio serving a limited number of clients each season, we provide attentive guidance, thoughtful execution, and long-term support that is intentional.
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Unlike traditional landscaping companies or maintenance crews, Shizen is built specifically around the design and long-term care of food-producing plants.
Growing ornamental plants and growing food require different knowledge, timing, and systems. Fruit trees, vegetables, and perennial crops demand an understanding of soil health, seasonal cycles, pruning structure, nutrient management, and harvest timing. Our work is grounded in those realities.
We combine formal training in sustainable agriculture with structured systems thinking to create landscapes that function well and improve over time. Rather than installing and moving on, we focus on stewardship — ensuring that gardens remain healthy, productive, and integrated into their environment for years to come.
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Shizen (pronounced shee-zen) is a Japanese word meaning nature or the way things exist in their natural state.
It reflects our belief that the healthiest, most resilient gardens are created by working with natural systems—allowing food, landscape, and season to function together as they were meant to.
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