Wild Plant Culture

Wild Plant Culture

A Guide to Restoring Edible and Medicinal Native Plant Communities

Rosenbaum, Jared

New Society Publishers

11/2022

296

Mole

Inglês

9780865719804

15 a 20 dias

590

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Acknowledgments


Section One: Restoring Reciprocity, Sustaining Sustenance


Introduction

The Farmer's Quandary

Two Human Paths

Who Is This Book For?


Chapter 1: A Different Way

Tending the Wild

Eat Local


Chapter 2: Plants in Relationship

Plant Planet

Carbon and Soils

Temperature and Water

Wild Plants as Food

Wild Plants as Medicine


Chapter 3: Ecological Restoration

Mimesis and the Reference

Ecosystem

Restoring Plants


Chapter 4: In Community with Nature

Communities

Belonging to an Ecological Community




Section Two: Learning Your Land


Chapter 5: Reading Geology, Soils, and Water

Soils and Geology

Water

Plants and Hydrology


Chapter 6: Land Use History

Land Use History and Habitat Quality

Post-Agricultural Soils

Natural Disturbances


Chapter 7: Reading the Story of the Land

Historical Aerial Photos and Maps

Analyzing the Landscape

Indicators of a Remnant

Indicators of Disturbed Habitats

Making Your Own Map

Tend or Mend

High-Quality Sites ? Tend

Low-Quality Sites ? Mend


Section Three: Plant Communities and Culturally Useful Plants


Chapter 8: Plant Communities

Plant Community: Riparian Forests

Plant Community: Rich Mesic Forest

Plant Community: Upland Oak Forest

Plant Community: Glades

Plant Community: Meadows and Grasslands

Plant Community: Forested Wetlands

Plant Community: Sunny Wetlands and Shores

Plant Community: High Elevation and Northern Forests

Plant Community: Sandy Pine and Oak Forests

Plant Community: The Seashore


Chapter 9: Plant Species


Section Four: Restoring Your Land


Chapter 10: The Reference Site

How to Find a Reference Site

Interpreting a Natural Area for Beginners


Chapter 11: Repairing Soils

Soil Amendments

Wood Chips

Leaf Compost

Mycorrhizal Fungi

Biochar

Decompacting Soil

Restoring Landscape Structure

Pit and Mound Topography

Structural Repair Methods


Chapter 12: Vegetation Control

Tillage

Smothering and Solarizing

The "Lasagna" Mulching Method

Herbicides


Chapter 13: Burning

Indigenous Fire

Transitions

Ecological Potential


Chapter 14: Deer Management and Exclusion

Protecting Plantings from White-Tailed Deer


Chapter 15: Introducing Plant Materials

Planting

Seeding

Post-Seeding Maintenance for Meadows

Meadow Maintenance


Conclusion: A Missing Link

Belonging to This Place


Appendix - Assessment and Monitoring Techniques

Assessment and Monitoring

Baseline Monitoring

Monitoring Methods

Photo Monitoring

Biological Inventories

Floristic Quality

Assessment

Sampling Units


Endnotes

Index

About the Author

About New Society Publishers
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