Benefits of Ecosystem Landscapes

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Ecosystem landscapes don’t just benefit the land itself, they benefit you directly as the grower. Your social life, mental health, physical activity, etc. are all improved by building an ecosystem design landscape. Connect With Zach Loeks: Zach Loeks is a farmer, educator and author. He’s the founder of Edible Ecosystem Design, doing installs for farms, homesteads, and public spaces. He also has his own farm and used to run a commercial market garden. These days he does trials of fruit trees, berries, etc in cold climates. The Permaculture Market Garden The Edible Ecosystem Solution Ecosystem Solution Institute Instagram YouTube Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Hope you're doing well. Kevin
0:17.0	Spirito here. We have Zach Locke's back on the show, a farmer and educator and author, founder
0:22.7	of edible ecosystem design. There's all sorts of things in the edible landscaping world.
0:29.8	And I guess that's what we're talking about today, Zach. We talked a little bit yesterday
0:32.5	about some practical ideas, like what can you do in a pathway? What can you do going up
0:37.6	your driveway, et cetera. But if we zoom it out and maybe even take a look at one of the
0:43.2	clients that you've worked with before and after of some of the benefits that they experience
0:47.4	not only in their garden, but in their life as well.
0:50.1	Yeah, for sure. I think what's great is just to kind of zoom out, like you said, and think
0:56.5	about the benefits of these sort of landscapes in more than just the sense of food production,
1:01.8	right? Anybody can have a design goal for their property. Well, I want to have a tea garden
1:10.8	or I want to have a vegetable garden, or I'd like to have a backyard orchard, or I want to have
1:17.9	an edible pry on the sea hedge. The word that we choose to describe what we want are important
1:25.4	because they really start to provide us with a goal setting of what the benefits we want to achieve
1:31.8	are. What's beautiful about edible ecosystems is because they're so diversified and they focus
1:37.0	on edible and useful plants, they have myriad benefits. The ecosystem services are quite broad
1:44.2	as well as being specific. For instance, tea plants also provide pollinator habitat for
1:50.0	beneficial insects, and of course, we depend on beneficial insects in our farms and our orchards
1:55.4	and our communities. They're fundamental to the existence of many of our food plants, right? So,
2:03.5	this is another benefit that may not even be the primary focus of the design, and so I guess that's
2:10.0	where I kind of like to go when I think about these broader benefits. Yeah, I think the way I think
2:17.2	about it is there's all these, there's the direct benefit, the harvest, right, or the soil health
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