Zach Loeks

EcosystemU offers courses to boost your garden savvy, and ecosystem stewardship

We offer design lessons and overall ecosystem education for individuals and groups to help transition green space to edible biodiversity and ecosystem benefits!  Our courses are for gardeners, landscapers, farmers, homesteaders and city-planners.  If you are serious about taking your growing skills to the next level- we have a course for you to meet you where you are at and help you grow better, more beautiful and more biodiverse landscapes.

Our courses include 29, 78, 144-hour online courses at different levels on subjects from Organic gardening, Permaculture, Sustainable Farming and Ecosystem Design.  Course material includes recorded video lectures, eBooks, design sheets, certificate tests, practical assignments and LIVE lectures.  Please review the courses information at www.ecosystemu.com for specific information about the course and what it contains.



Food Guild Design

This course is an intensive look at food guild design. From companion planting practices to case studies of successful guild designs, this course is foundational to garden success for home gardeners or commercial growers. Using modular design systems developed by The Ecosystem Solution Institute, Food Guild Design is an in-depth look at building relationships between plants, soil and people. This is a 4-week Introductory COURSE with 28 hours of course content: videos, eBooklets, info sheets and other exclusive Home Garden Pro lesson material! EcosystemU offers three types of courses: Introduction, Design, and Certification. The difference between these is the amount and type of content provided. (There are no live lectures in introductory level courses).



REGISTER TODAY and use the Promo Code "FirstCourse25" for a 25% off discount on FOOD GUILD DESIGN course at www.EcosystemU.com

ECOSYSTEMU has courses to boost your garden savvy, and ecosystem stewardship!

We offer design lessons and overall ecosystem education for individuals and groups to help transition green space to edible biodiversity and ecosystem benefits!  For gardeners, farmers, landscape professionals and more.

Check out our upcoming Courses at www.ecosystemu.com

and email us at EcosystemU@gmail.com for a 25% off coupon on your first course and 15% off our book The Edible Ecosystem Solution.

Grow On,

Zach

Bryan Johnson wrote:My current fave ground covers are dutch clover and birds foot trefoil. I also have a lot of wild strawberries. Do strawberries count as ground cover?

Yes, they do.  Ground covers are always low growing and very protective of the soil environment and ecosystem

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T Simpson wrote:Dandelion and narrow leaf plantain are welcomed in my yard as well for medicinal use.

I've tried hulu berry a white variety of strawberry along with 2 red strawberries for pollination but nothing really fruited, a few really tiny berries. I think it didn't like the soil amendment. Both the plants and amendment were from Costco.


What I don't like is hop clover, its like chickweed but climbs and tangles everything.

Making the best choices is a big part of guild design

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Bihai Il wrote:In my yard? Dandelions and plantain!

So far I haven't put effort into ground covers. In the past year I've been spending more time identifying and learning about what is already here. I like the idea of creeping thyme on a walkway but went with wood chips for now. I also would love strawberries.

Ground cover anchor our garden guilds, especially for perennial designs!  Learn more at Ecosystem Solution Institute and see our upcoming Food Guild Design Course

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Grow On,

Zach

Glen Thomson wrote:Hi Zach,
I just placed my order. Looking forward to digging in more on this topic.
Best wishes,
Glen B
Hamilton, ON

Awesome

learn more www.ecosystemsolutioninstitute.com here :)

John Suavecito wrote:I think this idea makes sense.  You are planning for how your food forest will look in the future.
John S
PDX OR

Awesome, yes :)

Marvin Weber wrote:If it's as good as his previous book, The Permaculture Market Garden, then it's worth getting a hold of!

Thanks Marvin :)

I think you will enjoy it for sure.  Also, please enjoy a 15% discount from our website with promo code "Winter2021". www.ecosystemsolutioninstitute.com

Thanks for being a grower of greatness!

Zach

Julie Johnston wrote:Design question re Food Guild Design and edible ecosystems. I just read on the course website that one can "pattern smaller guild spots into larger macro landscapes." I'm wondering if this is how to build up a food forest/forest garden if one can't do it all at the same time. Like fractals, in a sense.
Thanks!
Julie

Hi,

This exactly how we build larger food forests  Our award-winning Permabed System is focused on modular and systematic design, building, planting and maintaining of edible ecosystems (food forest or other styles).

Best,

Zach

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