Wild Plant Culture

Name: Wild Plant Culture
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780865719804
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A Guide to Restoring Edible and Medicinal Native Plant Communities

By Jared Rosenbaum

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Wild Plant Culture by Jared Rosenbaum is a captivating exploration of the intricate relationships between people and wild plants. It delves into the practices of foraging, cultivating, and restoring native plants, offering insights into how these activities can strengthen biodiversity and transform landscapes. The book serves as both a practical guide and a manifesto for ecological restoration, encouraging readers to engage intimately with the plant life around them.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the intricate relationships between humans and wild plants and are keen to explore how these connections can enrich ecosystems and enhance biodiversity. It's an engaging read for those interested in sustainable living, rewilding practices, and the science behind nurturing our natural environment.

Wild Plant Culture covers the ecological restoration of native edible and medicinal plant communities with a focus on Eastern North America. Integrating restoration practices, foraging, herbalism, rewilding, and permaculture, it provides tools to engage with wild plant communities in mutually beneficial relationships.

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

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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
HONOURABLE MENTION | 2023 American Horticultural Society Book Awards

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Wild Plant Culture by Jared Rosenbaum receives high praise for its innovative approach to integrating ecological restoration with food production. The book is celebrated for its relevance and applicability beyond North America, offering insights valuable to global ecological practices. Readers appreciate its thorough exploration of plant ecology, its blend of scientific knowledge with practical application, and its timely message on the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. The book is seen as both a comprehensive reference and a source of inspiration for deeper ecological engagement.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780865719804

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 November 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: New Society Publishers

Illustration: 30 Halftones, color; 120 Halftones, black and white

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 225.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 296

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Home & Garden Jared Rosenbaum Non-Fiction Science & Nature Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Jared Rosenbaum is a botanist, native plant grower, and ecological restoration practitioner. He and his wife run Wild Ridge Plants LLC, which grows local ecotype native plants using sustainable practices, performs botanical surveys, and provides ecological restoration planning services. Jared has extensive experience in stewardship and monitoring of natural communities. He is known as an educator in plant ecology, ecological restoration, and the cultural uses of wild plant foods and medicines. Jared is the author of two prior books on native plants, including the children's book The Puddle Garden, and maintains an active blog at wildplantculture.com. He is a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner by the Society for Ecological Restoration. He lives in New Jersey.