Zach Loeks

Title: Educator & Author

Location: Ottawa, Ontario

Expertise: Permaculture Gardening

Zach Loeks is an educator, designer and grower who specializes in Edible Ecosystem Design through landscaping and education. He consults widely with homes, farms, colleges, schools and municipalities across Canada and the United States, and through many biomes from Guatemala and South Africa to the Yukon and Mongolia. Zach is running the Ecosystem Solution Institute, which is dedicated to the education, propagation and inspiration of ecosystem solutions for land use transition. Zach is passionate about how small actions—strategically linked—can make big change.

Highlights:

  • Zach manages an award-winning farm with diversified food forest products, heirloom garlic and a hardy tree nursery.
  • Director of the Ecosystem Solution Institute.
  • His inspiring and empowering vision is presented in his book: The Edible Ecosystem Solution.

Awards:

Zach Innovations has won three provincial awards and is featured in his first book: The Permaculture Market Garden, The Edible Ecosystem Solution and The Two-wheel Tractor Handbook.

Experience:

Zach manages a farm with diversified food forest products, heirloom garlic, and a hardy tree nursery. Zach is the director of the Ecosystem Solution Institute, which is dedicated to the education, propagation and inspiration of ecosystem solutions for land use transition. He is an educator at the online school EcosystemU.com.

Other Work:

  • Author of the Permaculture Market Garden.
  • Author of the Edible Ecosystem Solution.
  • Author of the Two-wheel Tractor Handbook.

Education:

Studied Human Environment & Natural Resource Management at Concordia University.

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