You're invited!
Join us as a Presenter or Panelist at
The Foodscaper Conference
Join us for a two day live virtual conference on February 11 & 12, 2026 for professional foodscapers.
Let us know you're in by November 21st!
Fill out the form and waiver below to register. 👇
At The Foodscaper Conference, we explore the process of designing, building, and maintaining foodscapes for clients.
Our goal is to help professional edible landscapers create a regenerative impact in the world.
This conference season, we're focusing on workshop style presentations with opportunities for guests to engage, reflect and integrate your lesson into their work.
Our attendees agree that robust engagement and community building are what made makes this conference a big success.
We'd love for you to help us lead the foodscaping movement forward!
- Matt Lebon, conference host
Founder, Custom Foodscapes & The Foodscaper
Who are the speakers?
We are featuring leading pro foodscapers from across North America. These leaders have industry expertise that will save our attendees time, money, and mistakes.
We've invited the folks we think are leading this industry forward - and that includes you.
Who is The Foodscaper
Conference for?
The conference is designed for professional edible landscapers.
We’re also here to teach and support:
- Permaculture Design Certification graduates
- homesteaders
- horticulturalists
- conventional landscapers
- community garden liaisons
- hobbyist foodscapers looking to go pro
- urban farmers
How does this work?
As a presenter, you'll submit a draft of your 90 minute presentation to our team by January 15.
During the conference, you'll give your presentation, offer a workshop element (like a reflection questions, activity, break out room) and take questions from the audience in a live Q&A format following your presentation.
FOR PRESENTERS ONLY:
Participation Requirements for the Conference
How to Create a Conference Presentation Our Audience will Love
Our attendees want fresh, original content that enhances their professional growth. This year, we are emphasizing WORKSHOP-style presentations to keep everyone engaged. We want presentations that are fun, interactive, and informative.
Ideas for Engagement:
- Ask questions in the chat that participants can answer.
- Short breakout rooms (10 minutes or less) where attendees discuss a question, solve a problem, or share their own ideas.
- Journaling prompts where participants reflect on challenges they face (e.g., "What's stopping me from charging more?" or "How can my team work better together?").
- Role-playing: Invite participants to play the role of a client or designer while you demonstrate a design or consultation scenario.
A Successful Presentation Includes:
- Original content aimed at professional edible landscapers who work in both residential and commercial spaces.
- Rotating between sharing slides and talking directly to the group (without sharing your slides)
- Practical, actionable information that foodscapers can immediately apply to their own projects or businesses.
- Detailed case studies that walk through real-world examples, showing how specific challenges were solved.
- Tips for success that help attendees with limited time take actionable steps.
Know Your Audience:
You’ll be speaking to professional and aspiring foodscapers—people who design and install food-producing landscapes for a living. They’re looking to improve not only as growers but also as business operators and team members. Your presentation should help them in all aspects of their work.
What We're Not Looking For:
- Reused or broad content. Create something new and tailored to this specific audience.
- Sales pitches: We want continuing education, not a promotion of your services or trainings.
- Theoretical content: Stick to practical, real-world application and technical details.
Example Presentation on Rainwater Management in the Foodscape
- Objective: Teach innovative rainwater management techniques for edible landscapes.
- Engagement: Start with a chat question like, "What's your biggest rainwater harvesting challenge?"
- Lesson: Discuss a few techniques, illustrating with 4-5 small case studies showing how challenges were solved creatively at different client sites.
- Breakout Activity: Present a mock case study and let groups brainstorm solutions (10 minutes).
- Group Sharing: Each group shares their ideas and solutions.
- Q&A: Open the floor for questions to dive deeper into the topic.
Extra Credit:
Our audience loves handouts, slides, and supplemental materials they can take home and use in their own work.
Need inspiration?
- Click here for an example of a presentation that knocked it out of the park. Check out Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture presentation “Using Google Earth to Quickly Gather Site Data for Design.” Note: there aren't workshop elements to this talk, but everything else is practical, professional, and perfect for foodscapers!
Here's a look at the numbers from last year's conference.
- We offer the only online conference for professional edible landscapers
- 64K+ speaker impressions
- 30k+ views on our homepage
- Over 1K community board comments from 220+ participants
- 200 + attendees
- 35 small meet up groups for niche topic discussions
- 10 live presentations + 2 live panels
What's in it for you?
Panelists and Presenters will receive:
1. Agreed up compensation for your presentation or panel (to be paid by March 1, 2026) + 30% of sales earned through your affiliate link
2. Two free tickets to the conference (you + 1), a $200 value
3. Recognition as a thought leader in the foodscaper industry + the chance to contribute to this exciting emerging industry!
We're here to support you with:
1. Help preparing your presentation. You can reach out to conference organizer Rachel Kaplan at [email protected] Want to go over your slides with us beforehand? We're here to support you to make sure you're feeling great about your presentation for The Foodscaper audience
2. A Promo Kit: We’ll make the promo work simple and easy for you with pre-scripted promotional copy, social media graphics and other tools for getting the word out. Coming soon...
3. Join our affiliate program here to receive a 30% cut of all sales earned through your link.
Take the next step!
Fill out the registration form here.
Reach out to Rachel Kaplan, conference organizer, at [email protected] with questions
