The Edible Ecosystem Solution
Growing Biodiversity in Your Backyard and Beyond

A powerhouse of eco system knowledge presented with colorful watercolor illustrations. This book provides historical facts and futuristic ideals around the importance of a diverse and layered landscape and garden, in a language that anyone interested in gardening and yard work can appreciate. Zack's......more

This book is great at imagining how awesome it would be if we were growing edible plants everywhere possible. And I believe in the idea enough that I tried to relandscape my yard along those lines. But I think it's missing any discussion of the changes that would be required to change the culture fr......more

Reading this along with a few other books on the same topic. There is a lot of theory in this book. A lot of "Why we should have edible ecosystems" and "Where we can have edible ecosystems". It would be good for someone writing a paper but it's not very useful for the average gardener. Look elsewher......more

I am taking the Edible Property Design course offered by Zach Loeks and have also been reading his book, The Edible Ecosystem Solution book, as a resource to support my learning. In the course, we are rethinking how we can better use our land, whether a city yard or large farm or something in betwee......more

For anyone wishing to change their ornamental gardens, under used plots of land or lawn into productive fruit and vegetable garden beds, this book will give you the information and more importantly the inspiration to do it. It's a very well organized book with plenty of background and practical idea......more