The Triebel Lot Garden is laid out on the garden area of the Triebel house lot, a home which no longer stands. The garden design is inspired by Der Up-Land Gartten (the Upland Garden) in Bethabara, as recorded in 1759. Bethabara was the first Moravian town in Wachovia, and early drawings and maps of gardens there provide remarkable documentation about design and plant material used by the early Moravians in North Carolina.

Der Up-Land Gartten and the Hortus Medicus plans are the earliest discovered American garden plans with accompanying plant lists; they are in the collections of the Moravian Archives Bethlehem and Winston-Salem, respectively.

The large planting beds of Bethabara's Upland Garden (Vegetable or Kitchen Garden) were laid out in diagonal rows and are replicated on a smaller scale in the Triebel Lot Garden. Perhaps they were for drainage, for better utilization of space and sunlight, or maybe purely for a pleasing design.

A variety of vegetables and herbs are planted in the diagnol rows of the garden squares throughout the year. Apple trees line the back of the lot.