Food systems are both embedded in and constitutive of landscape systems. There are ways of linking food systems with the place-making practices of landscape design and planning. Food and landscape can be re-described as mutually constitutive systems operating across multiple scales and various cultural practices. Beyond the common notions of landscapes as bounded sites, formal gardens, aesthetic or visual scenes, landscapes are conceived here as complex, emergent, multi-sensory and diversely authored phenomena. Working with this conception landscape design is a synthetic and strategic art form that engages natural process and cultural practices, as well as the poetics and politics of place. From these re-descriptions that emphasize mutual interests, new projects and practices can be proposed to create “productive reciprocities” between landscape and food systems. On one hand, working with landscape strategies offers new ways of grounding food systems in spatial frameworks of regional ecologies and local cultural landscapes. On the other hand, working with food systems invigorates current design practices, such as preservation, and offers new potentials for making public places, sustainable ecologies and constructing cultural identities connected to the vital processes and practices of food.