Zach Loeks

The Edible Ecosystem Solution (eBook, ePUB)

Growing Biodiversity in Your Backyard and Beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Start a peaceful revolution by planting an edible ecosystem and sharing the experience with your neighbors

Humans have always thrived in rich, diverse, edible ecosystems. Yet most cities and suburbs are blanketed by lawns, ornamentals, and a lack of biodiversity, let alone anything edible. It is within these sterile landscapes that seeds of an edible ecosystem lie.

The Edible Ecosystem Solution is a comprehensive, practical guidebook that looks at underutilized spaces to reveal the many opportunities for landscape transformation that are both far-reaching and immediately beneficial and enjoyable. Contents include:

• Hundreds of full-color infographics, illustrations, and photographs that clearly outline the principles and concepts of edible landscape design and benefits
• How to get started with as little as 25 square feet of land
• How to transition a garden plot into a place of edible abundance and an edible biodiversity hot spot, living laboratory, and a source point for transitioning and transforming community and culture
• Choosing appropriate plants for insects, wildlife, and food production
• Scaling up and networking backyard edible ecosystems at the neighborhood level and beyond to build community food security and resilience.

The Edible Ecosystem Solution is for everyone with access to a bit of yard, a desire for food security, biodiversity, and a beautiful and resilient community, and for anyone who wants to reclaim humanity's place in a rich, abundant, edible ecosystem.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 171
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771423236
• Artikelnr.: 58515691

Autorenporträt

Zach Loeks is an award-winning educator, designer, author, consultant, and grower who specializes in Edible Ecosystem Design around the world. He is the director of the Ecosystem Solution Institute and author of The Permaculture Market Garden. He lives in Cobden, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Thesis
About This Book
Section 1: The Ecology of Humanity
    Precious Place in Space
    Biodiversity
    Ecosystems
    Human Habitat
    Ancestral Ecosystems
Section 2: Solutions and Opportunities
    Habitat Lost
    Modern Ecosystem Services
    Big-Picture Services
    Opportunities
    Livable Community Benefits
    Common Lines
    Micro-Landscapes
    Ecosystem Spot
Section 3: Edible Ecosystem Design
    Inspiration to Act
    Site Selection and Micro-Environment
    Build a Permabed
    Site-Suitable Plant Selection
    Design an Ecosystem Guild
    Plant a Micro-Landscape
    Modular Ecosystem Landscape
Section 4: Educate, Propagate, Inspire
    Ecosystem Dispersal
    Edible Ecosystem Qualities
    Catalyzing Land Transition
    EPI Is a Model for Success
Section 5: Ecosystem Culture
    Transitioning Our Habitat
    Land, People, Culture
    Change Has Many Stakeholders
    Leadership
    Regenerative Wealth Security
    Habitat Is a Human Right
Endnotes
Index
About the Author
A Note about the Publisher