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    Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies
    Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies
    Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies
    Audiobook8 hours

    Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

    Written by Akiva Silver and Samuel Thayer

    Narrated by Madison Niederhauser

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    The organic grower's guide to planting, propagation, culture, and ecology

    Trees are our allies in healing the world. Partnering with trees allows us to build soil, enhance biodiversity, increase wildlife populations, grow food and medicine, and pull carbon out of the atmosphere, sequestering it in the soil.

    Trees of Power explains how we can work with these arboreal allies, specifically focusing on propagation, planting, and individual species. Author Akiva Silver is an enthusiastic tree grower with years of experience running his own commercial nursery. In this book he clearly explains the most important concepts necessary for success with perennial woody plants. It’s broken down into two parts: the first covering concepts and horticultural skills and the second with in-depth information on individual species. You’ll learn different ways to propagate trees: by seed, grafting, layering, or with cuttings. These time-honored techniques make it easy for anyone to increase their stock of trees, simply and inexpensively.

    Ten chapters focus on the specific ecology, culture, and uses of different trees, ones that are common to North America and in other temperate parts of the world:

    Chestnut: The Bread Tree
    Apples: The Magnetic Center
    Poplar: The Homemaker
    Ash: Maker of Wood
    Mulberry: The Giving Tree
    Elderberry: The Caretaker
    Hickory: Pillars of Life
    Hazelnut: The Provider
    Black Locust: The Restoration Tree
    Beech: The Root Runner

    Trees of Power fills an urgent need for up-to-date information on some of our most important tree species, those that have multiple benefits for humans, animals, and nature. It also provides inspiration for new generations of tree stewards and caretakers who will not only benefit themselves, but leave a lasting legacy for future generations.

    Trees of Power is for everyone who wants to connect with trees. It is for the survivalist, the gardener, the homesteader, the forager, the permaculturist, the environmentalist, the parent, the schoolteacher, the farmer, and anyone who feels a deep kinship with these magnificent beings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChelsea Green Publishing
    Release dateMar 26, 2019
    ISBN9781603588430
    Author

    Akiva Silver

    Akiva Silver owns and operates Twisted Tree Farm, a homestead, nut orchard, and nursery located in Spencer, New York, where he grows around 20,000 trees per year using practices that go beyond organic. His background is in foraging, wilderness survival, and primitive skills. He has been observing nature intensively for the last 20 years, cultivating a deep appreciation for life. Akiva lives on his farm with his wife and three young children.

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    • 5/5
      Great information and an author so passionate of his subjects you can’t help but want to forage,plant, and use all the trees in the book. I hope he will continue with another 10 or 20 species.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Really beautiful and intresting book. Very usefull on how to use some tree.

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    • 5/5
      captures my heart in the magic, use and appreciation of all things trees. I feel like Ive been waiting for this book my whole life
    • 5/5
      The great synchronicity in finding this audiobook after having watched Edible Acres and finding Akiva's channel on YouTube. I didn't even know he had written this. It is well written, honest and informative. Great for anyone interested in forestry, permaculture, food forests etc. Now to buy a printed copy!