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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 benefitsHow to get started with as little as 25 square feet of landHow 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 cultureChoosing appropriate plants for insects, wildlife, and food productionScaling 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.
From the Publisher
Learn how to turn greenspaces at home and in your community into edible ecosystems!
Design an Ecosystem Guild
Guild design is a process of creating a good layout, assessing food plants, and selecting key and companion varieties. It’s also understanding the pattern of your plants so they partition resources and contribute to overall ecosystem health.
The Key Plant
Guilds are designed around a key species or food plant. This food plant anchors the guild like a ship at sea and forms the basis for management and design. Your key food plant might be chosen based on a mixture of reasons.
Plant Your Guild
As designers, we need a vision and goals to approach our landscape design process; we can choose to restore native vegetation or plant site-suitable edible and useful varieties.
What solutions do edible ecosystems offer?
Climate Change
Ecosystems, such as forest, woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands, are excellent carbon sinks. These ecosystems sequester, or pull, carbon out of the atmosphere and put it into their woody stems or store it in the soil as soil organic matter.
Ecosystem Healthcare
Vibrant ecosystems that are part of our communities can help us live better lives; being surrounded by wildness calms our nervous system, stimulates our minds and works our bodies.
Food Security
For us to achieve a food-secure world, we need to have food in our communities—where people live. We cannot depend on imported foods! Many of our necessary foods can be integrated into landscapes that prioritize edible, useful plants and local farms.
Why is our current development model not sustainable?
Our Societal Success Is Non-regenerative
Despite our capacity to “conquer nature,” ecosystems remain the source of our societal wealth, and unsustainable and non-regenerative practices will ultimately be our demise.
Our Health and Wellness Is Not a Priority
Our best preventative measure and remedy against disease is to live a healthy lifestyle in a clean environment. Our bodies are accustomed to the qualities of a biodiverse world, and the monoculture model is undermining our primary health.
Globalization Means Global Consequences
We are no longer simply locally or regionally effecting change. Our non-regenerative socio-economic model is affecting the global life-support systems. In a way, we are too adept at survival for the now, rather than for long-term success.
ASIN : B089Q7RK9D
Publisher : New Society Publishers (December 8, 2020)
Publication date : December 8, 2020
Language : English
File size : 90115 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 289 pages
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