NEW RELEASES
The Healing Trees:
The Edible and Herbal Qualities of Northeastern Woodland Trees
by Robbie Hanna Anderman
By moving off-grid to land which had been a farm for 90 years, carved out of the heavily wooded Wilno Hills, eastern Ontario, Robbie Anderman left behind his former way of life, his allergy shots and pills, and the social supports he was used to. He quickly discovered that he needed to learn how to live on the land that had become his home. Not having been raised as a farmer, thousands and thousands of Trees soon moved steadily onto the 70 acres of open pastures and fields, taking root where their ancestors had lived for thousands of years.
Being curious about his environment, he wanted to learn more about his new Standing Tall rooted neighbours than he had learned during his childhood. Thanks to the help of many many people, he is ready to share what he has learned via this book, The Healing Trees: The Edible and Herbal Qualities of Northeastern Woodland Trees… and looks forward to learning more.
Covering an area around the Great Lakes south into part of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, east to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, north into Quebec and Ontario near Cochrane or Hearst, west just over the Ontario-Manitoba border and south into Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, this book covers our area with useful local information.
The Healing Trees is the essential guidebook, organized in an easy to use format.
In The Healing Trees, Robbie has given us the tools to claim back something essential, that we lost long ago: a home. This book is the ABCs of Trees and, as such, should be in every schoolroom, household, and library of northeastern America, until the facts herein come to be known by heart. Long ago, in rural schools, they actually did teach some of these things, like how to identify Trees, as well as their historic and industrial uses. The fact that we don’t teach or know these things is to me a glaring act of negligence that betrays a deep prejudice toward nature.
We would do well to emulate the approach Robbie has taken to the Trees. While his writing contains scientific perspectives and many medicinal facts, this book is also down-to-earth and respectful–even reverential–toward its subject, the Trees.
– Steven Elliot Martyn, author of The Story of the Madawaska Forest Garden, Co-creating Integrated Polyculture
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ISBN: 978-1-77257-153-0 | WMPub#1031 | 9" x 6"
240 pages; trade paperback; 136 diagrams | $25.00
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface: The Roots of the Book
Introduction: Within the Leaves of the Book
CHAPTER ONE: The Tall Standing Rooted Ones
CHAPTER TWO: Cautions amid the Trees
CHAPTER THREE: The Main Tree Trunk—the Trees
Alder
Apple
Ash
Balsam Fir
Balsam Poplar
Basswood
Beech
Birch
White Birch/Paper Birch
Yellow Birch
Black Birch
Cedar, Eastern White
Wild Black Cherry
Chokecherries
Pin Cherry
Hawthorn
Hemlock, Eastern
Ironwood
Maple
Hard Maples
Soft Maples
Small Maples
Oak
White Oak
Red Oak
Pine
White Pine
Red Pine
Poplar
Spruce
White Spruce
Black Spruce
Red Spruce
Norway Spruce
Tamarack
Wild Plum
Willow
Pussy Willow
Shining Willow
White Willow
CHAPTER FOUR: Some Side Branches
Some Personal Experiences
Tress and Vitamin C
Herbalism and Herbal Methods-Philosophy and Practicalities
Harvesting and Storig Tree Parts
Forestry First Aid
Edibles from Trees By Season
Wood Ashes
Relevant Notes and Quotes
Guide to Tree Uses and Properties
Glossary
About the Author