One of the biggest hurdles for new foodscapers isn't coming up with good ideas—it's communicating those ideas clearly.

How do you turn notes from a site visit into a professional landscape design? How do you draw to scale without making the process overly complicated? And how do you present your ideas in a way that helps clients immediately understand—and get excited about—the vision?

In this ProTalk, I'll walk through the practical design workflow I've refined over hundreds of foodscape projects. While I'll be demonstrating everything in Google Slides, this isn't a software class. It's a class about creating clear, professional landscape designs using simple tools that almost anyone can learn.

We'll cover:

• Finding and setting up an accurate base map
• Creating scaled drawings using graph paper and simple techniques
• Placing pathways, raised beds, fruit trees, gathering spaces, and other landscape elements
• Designing for flow, function, and the way people experience a space
• Presenting your ideas in a way that's easy for clients to understand and say yes to
• Practical techniques that make your designs look polished—without spending years learning CAD software

Whether you're sketching your very first foodscape or looking to make your design process more professional, you'll leave with a practical workflow you can immediately begin using with clients.

As always, we'll wrap up with plenty of time for live Q&A and discussion.

Matt is most passionate about creating magical food moments. He is driven by the belief that food connects us all. By cultivating food crops with a reverence for Mother Earth he believes we can begin to heal our bodies and the land. Matt got his start with farming as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, where he was initially bit by the gardening bug. He went on to study ecological design and work on several farms. For five seasons Matt worked at the EarthDance Organic Farm School until he left his role of farm manager in 2017. Founder of Custom Foodscapes and The Foodscaper, Matt now supports others as practitioners and designers of edible landscapes and gardens.