Earthwise Organic Designs
Sustainable
Organic Consulting
Creating a pathway for sustainable landscapes, then using experts to transform them.
Earthwise Organic Consulting evaluates your landscape then creates a process and recommendations for our landscape partners to design and implement.
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Bob Dahm is Earthwise Organic Consulting's owner. He combines his desire to help people find organic solutions for their yards with over 30 years of experience regenerating landscapes to thrive naturally.
Bob's landscapes harmonize with nature, resulting in affordable, sustainable, and organic solutions.
Our Process
We help you discover your path to sustainability in your landscape ecosystem and make your yard a retreat for people and nature, so that we can begin to regenerate our world.
Dream
Share your hopes and dreams for your outdoor spaces, and we will tell you how to make them a reality. From pollinator or veggie gardens to edible landscapes or just a healthier yard, our process creates spaces for family and friends to gather and live in an environment that nurtures you and the planet.
Our decades of experience help you unravel decisions and get you what your heart desires.
Define
We guide the evolution of your ideas from dreams to generating a concrete schedule of action and resources.
The most effective plans are implemented in phases. We know what to do and when to do it for efficiency, affordability, and peace of mind.
Identifying products and procedures developed over decades will make your project the envy of neighbors and the community.
Deliver
We have strong relationships with professional organizations that design, deliver materials, install and maintain your new landscape.
We make sure our service providers aren't green washing and provide real organic and sustainable practices.
Our knowledge and relationships serve you well on your path to creating a sustainable landscape.
Earthwise Organic Designs owner, Bob Dahm, was born on a farm in NW Iowa. His Dad was a farmer and his Mom was a teacher and a soil conservation activist. He watched his Dad, Grandfather, brother (the only one that went into farming) and many of their farmer friends die of cancer. The prostate cancer rate for his home county was many times greater than the national rate. Bob felt called to do what he could to help the world become an environmentally safer place to live.
Years later, when he was the groundskeeper at a children’s hospital, Bob started using organic methods and products on the playground. After 3 years, the playground was looking better than the rest of the grounds that were treated with conventional chemicals and pesticides - and it was easier to maintain. Hospital staff asked me to do use organics at their homes. This was in 1986, and the start of almost 40 years of using organic lawn and landscape practices to help people and organizations .
Our mission is to help people do the right thing. By that we mean restoring the environment, fighting climate change, supporting at-risk wildlife and their habitat, and creating personal sanctuaries where people interact with nature in their own backyards.
