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.