Jared Rosenbaum

The Publisher Says: 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.

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My Review: A beautiful idea: Re-wild the forests of the Eastern North American continent. How does one even start, though.

And here it is, an answer to the idea's obstacles.

There's nothing complicated or threatening about the complex project's graphic presentation. It's simple and typographically clean, and the interspersed illustrations are charming and appropriate to the topics Author Rosenbaum presents clearly and lucidly in this book.

There are simple, practical steps outlined for the project of re-wilding the most densely populated part of the continent. The world needs more wild, and re-wilded, places.

What makes me think of Yule gifting when I read and absorb this message is the sheer number of people I myownself know who, if they possessed some guidance on how, would definitely be willing...many even delighted...to join in the on-the-ground struggle to help the Earth our only home heal itself from generations of careless, heedless neglect.


a typical page spread from chapter 3
Below is an example of the eight-page color illustration insert. The croziers, which in the US we call "fiddleheads" from beginning to end, is particularly beautifully framed...and the skillet full of 'em is really well-chosen here!
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