Community Garden Landscape Design Eat Landscape

community gardens

a warm, shared space where people come together to unwind,
connect, grow and share food and enjoy contact with nature.

Let us help your dreams
of a community garden bear fruit...

Imagine a space where your community meets to relax, make friends, share food and grow beautiful and delicious plants.

A community garden can create a sense of belonging and togetherness in the same way as a community centre, school playground or local pub. It promotes health, happiness and wellbeing, as well as making space for nature.

Are you dreaming of a new community garden and have raised funds, but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you need some help and ideas to reimagine an existing space or a fresh set of eyes to take it to the next level?

Let us help your dreams of a community garden bear fruit...

Imagine a space where your community meets to relax, make friends, share food and grow beautiful and delicious plants.

A community garden can create a sense of belonging and togetherness in the same way as a community centre, school playground or local pub. It promotes health, happiness and wellbeing, as well as making space for nature.

Are you dreaming of a new community garden and have raised funds, but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you need some help and ideas to reimagine an existing space or a fresh set of eyes to take it to the next level?

At EAT Landscape, we love to use our expertise and design skills to inspire you and bring a fresh vision to your community garden. We can unlock the possibilities of your space and build a design that works for your whole community, helping you negotiate any regulations or planning guidance that may apply.

Together we can create a warm and welcoming green space, tailored to meet the needs of the community you love.

book a free consultation with us

who we work with...

If you are a school, charity, faith organisation, community group or just a group of volunteers with a big idea, we’d love to work in partnership with you to create a thriving green space where people and nature flourish.

We work with all sizes of spaces, from a compact courtyard, a medium sized open space or the whole grounds to a building. We can help you:

Tailored Creativity

We bring creativity and expertise to design a community garden from scratch, ensuring it aligns with the community’s vision and needs.

Re-design an Existing Garden

Transform your existing community garden into a renewed space with our specialism in breathing new life into established green areas.

Targeted Enhancement

Whether it’s a neglected corner or a key focal point, we provide targeted design ideas to maximise the potential of specific areas.

Planting Precision

We offer expert advice on plant selection, taking into account local climate conditions, soil quality, and maintenance requirements.

Curved footpath leading around a lawn, with a planting bed to the left side containing a line of white, metal posts with images on the top

working with us to design
your community garden

We tailor our design services to suit the requirements and budget of your community project.

Typical projects include providing inspiration, ideas and plans for:

Themed gardens, such as a peace garden or remembrance garden

A gathering space to host parties, celebrations and events

A space that creates opportunities for fun, healthy, outdoor activities

Food growing areas for herbs, salads, fruit, vegetables and flowers

Habitats for wildlife

Wildflower meadows

Here are the four steps we follow to start the process when designing your community garden.

Free of charge in Liverpool or within a 15 mile radius.*

Contact us to arrange an initial meeting where we can get to know you. We can walk together around your outdoor space and you can show us how you would like to use it and what ideas your community members have. We’ll also discuss your budget and timescales and explore what services you’ll require. We can also offer you some inspiration from our portfolio.

* We’re happy to consider projects further afield, but for these we’ll need to charge a £60 fee plus travel expenses (mileage or public transport).

Based on our consultation, we will provide you with a written fee proposal. This will include a summary of your brief, the services that we recommend and an itemised fee.

Once you have accepted our quotation, we will arrange to meet you to complete a site survey and discuss the brief.

We will develop an outline design brief, based on our initial consultation, to build the vision for your transformed community garden. We’ll consider how the space will be used; style preferences; existing features to retain, remove or re-locate; new features to include; materials and budget.

Then, based on the brief, we will complete the design, planning and project management services that you have requested.

Some of the groups we work with like to get their hands dirty and carry out some or all of the work themselves. If you don’t already have a contractor in mind and would like some help with your build, we have a list of trusted landscape contractors that we would be happy to recommend.

If you select our project management services, we can oversee the entire project on your behalf, taking care of everything, from obtaining contractor quotes to managing the build through to completion.

working with us to design your community garden