Wild Plant Culture
eBook - PDF

Wild Plant Culture

A Guide to Restoring Edible and Medicinal Native Plant Communities

  1. 326 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Wild Plant Culture

A Guide to Restoring Edible and Medicinal Native Plant Communities

About this book

Reconnect. Restore. Reciprocate. Repairing landscapes and reconnecting us to the wild plant communities around us.

Integrating restoration practices, foraging, herbalism, rewilding, and permaculture, Wild Plant Culture is a comprehensive guide to the ecological restoration of native edible and medicinal plant communities in Eastern North America.

Blending science, practice, and traditional knowledge, it makes bold connections that are actionable, innovative, and ecologically imperative for repairing both degraded landscapes and our broken cultural relationship with nature. Coverage includes:

  • Understanding and engaging in mutually beneficial human-plant connections
  • Techniques for observing the land's existing and potential plant communities
  • Baseline monitoring, site preparation, seeding, planting, and maintaining restored areas
  • Botanical fieldwork restoration stories and examples
  • Detailed profiles of 209 native plants and their uses.

Both a practical guide and an evocative read that will transport you deep into the natural landscape, Wild Plant Culture is an essential toolkit for gardeners, farmers, and ecological restoration practitioners, highlighting the important role humans play in tending and mending native plant communities.

AWARDS

  • SILVER | 2023 Nautilus Book Awards | Green, Restorative Practices / Sustainability
  • HONORABLE MENTION | 2023 American Horticultural Society Book Awards

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Information

Publisher
New Society Publishers
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780865719804
eBook ISBN
9781550927733
Topic
Sciences biologiques
Subtopic
Botanique

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Title Page
  4. Rights Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Section One: Restoring Reciprocity, Sustaining Sustenance
  8. Section Two: Learning Your Land
  9. Section Three: Plant Communities and Culturally Useful Plants
  10. Color Section
  11. Color Section (2)
  12. Conclusion: A Missing Link
  13. Appendix — Assessment and Monitoring Techniques
  14. Endnotes
  15. Index
  16. About the Author
  17. About New Society Publishers
  18. A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading

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