Earth Ecology
Native & Edible Landscape Design | Build
Water Cycle Restoration | Habitat Creation
Earth Ecology supports inspired and aspiring earth stewards to design and craft ecosystems, in service to the waters, the plants, the critters, and the art that the land inspires in us.
Water is life, and we love life. Water cycle restoration is one of our biggest motivators, and is the point of departure for all of our interventions. We utilize context appropriate restoration interventions, which may include: rain gardens, ponds, spring tapping, water conveyance terraces, beaver dam analogues, one rock dams, bank stabilization and erosion control, rock spillways, and more.
Diversity of species ensures a healthy, stable, yet dynamic and evolving ecosystem. We are total plant geeks and have been known to “cramscape” with local and regionally native, rare plant selections.
We are enthralled with the ecosystems of our home on the West Coast, US. Our designs emulate and remix our observations from the wild.
We believe healthy human habitats can coexist with nature in a holistically integrated way. Our ecosystem designs almost always include some edible aspects. Farms that integrate the agro-ecological strategies we practice benefit from enhanced resilience, higher total yield, and are seen as leaders in the field of Regenerative Agriculture. Our farming experience affords us a unique design approach for home scale systems, and a practiced and experienced take on total farm planning.
Artist turned ecologist, Nick Lake founded Earth Ecology in 2016 and is the lead designer and manager of projects. Call or Email to begin the design process.