Foreword Preface Chapter 1: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: How to Unlock Your Woodlot's Potential Taking Stock Evaluating Your Options Your Woodland Eye Chapter 2: Tools and Techniques: Essentials for the Homestead Woodlot The Axe From Rusty to Trusty: Restoring an Old Axe Felling and Chopping The Peavey The Bow Saw The Chainsaw Splitting Firewood Skidding Logs The Portable Sawmill Chapter 3: Animals in the Forest: From Stumps to Greener Pastures Silvopasture The Closed-Loop Silvopasture Sequence Pork Power for Stumps and Soil Taking Stock of Livestock Multispecies Grazing Chapter 4: The Coppice Forest: Fauna, Fodder, Fuel and Furniture A Brief History of Coppice Forestry Establishing a Coppice Woodlot Creative Woodlot Tending Coppice with Standards Fauna in Your Forest Coppicing for Fodder Coppicing for Charcoal Forest Furniture Chapter 5: Woodland Structures: From Living Fence to Living Barn Fencing Psychology A Short History of Living Fences Living Fence for the Homestead Inosculation Hedges The Living Fencepost Formerly Living Fenceposts Building with Stumps Shelterbelts The Living Barn Chapter 6: Giving Trees: Fruit, Honey, and Syrup The Homestead Orchard Deciding What to Grow The Multipurpose Forest Micro-Orchard The Art of Planting Resurrecting the Woodland Orchard Bees in the Woodland Homestead Cellar and Cider: Enjoying the Harvest The Homestead Sugarbush Chapter 7: Farming The Forest Floo: Nuts, Berries, Mushrooms, and More Hugelkulter: A Whole-Tree Composting System Cultivating Forest Edibles Edibles, Medicinals, and Miscellany Baskets, Burls, and Birch Bark A Typical Woodland Homestead Calendar Resources Index.