Wild Plant Culture

A Guide to Restoring Edible and Medicinal Native Plant Communities

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.

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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
  • HONORABLE MENTION | 2023 American Horticultural Society Book Awards

About The Author(s)

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.

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Book Awards

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

Book Specifications

ISBN: 9780865719804

Page Count: 296

Dimensions: 7.5 × 8.875 × 0.69 in

Publication Date: November 22, 2022

Images: Color Section

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