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Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place

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By (author): Tomi Hazel Vaarde

Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place is a must-have for anyone wanting to have a reciprocating relationship with their communities, themselves, and most importantly their awe-inspiring forests and landscapes. 

Social Forestry connects villages and communities to their forests and adjoining bodies of water. It includes forest management, protection, and regeneration of deforested lands with the objective of improving the rural, environmental, and social development. Through ecological assessment, carbon sequestration, and generating wildcrafts, people re-establish their wonder in the woods.

Author Tomi Hazel Vaarde, collaborator of Siskiyou Permaculture, uses poetry,  photographs, drawings, and data to outline philosophies and concepts of Social Forestry. By weaving culturally sensitive stories, myths, and lessons from a range of customs and traditions including North American Indigenous communities and Vaardes own Quaker upbringing, Vaarde explores how holistic land and community management approaches can facilitate resolution of some of our most dire local and global crises. The writers work is critical to overcoming eco-grief while instilling necessary changes to the West Coast landscape for fire mitigation and restoration of complex forest systems for generations to come.

Many indigenous peoples have learned regenerative management by living for generations in and with a sense of place, but few examples of whole-system planning and participation are evident in modern society. Climate adaptation, human survival, and conservation efforts to maintain biodiversity that supports life on Earth require radical, back-to-the-roots grounding and intentional dedication. Social Forestry helps readers remember the ways of the wild while implementing local food production, collaboration with conservation efforts, forest management, and stabilization of headwaters to build resilience for the long term. To live in harmony with our surroundings, we need to re-skill, always remembering those who came before us and acting in ways that honor traditional wisdom of people and place.  

Social Forestry includes 31 4-color posters and 54 images.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 680g
  • Dimensions: 203 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: Synergetic Press Inc.U.S.
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781957869063

About Tomi Hazel Vaarde

Hazel is a long time resident of the Southern Oregon/Mount Shasta bioregion first settling here in the early 70s.  Their current focus topics are Social Forestry restoring Oak/Pine Savannah fuel hazard management wildcrafting wildlife conservation and desert forest water management. They have been advising farms stewarding forests and teaching Environmental Sciences for more than fifty years.    After having earned degrees in Forestry and Systematic Botany from Syracuse University and SUNY College of Forestry 1969 Hazel taught Wild Edible Plants and Woods-lore at Laney College in Oakland CA in the early 70s. After helping Bill Mollison teach the first Permaculture Design Course at Evergreen State College in 1982 they have been instrumental in teaching and spreading Permaculture practices. Hazel has taught dozens of Permaculture courses over the last 37 years primarily in Southern Oregon and Northern California. These include the PDC Permaculture Teachers Training and advanced courses in Optical Surveying Social Forestry and Farm Planning. They were a frequent guest instructor for Toby Hemenway PDCs offered in the Northwest. Starhawk is an author activist permaculture designer and teacher and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing and its sequel City of Refuge. Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups on group dynamics power conflict and communications.  Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality the tools of ritual and the skills of activism. 

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