Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies

by Akiva Silver, Samuel Thayer (Foreword)

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 the first covering concepts and horticultural skills and the second with in-depth information on individual species. You’ll learn different ways to propagate 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

The Bread Tree
The Magnetic Center
The Homemaker
Maker of Wood
The Giving Tree
The Caretaker
Pillars of Life
The Provider
Black The Restoration Tree
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.

Genres: Nature, Nonfiction, Gardening, Agriculture, Science, Plants, Reference

288 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2019

Reviews

[Clare O'Beara · Rating 5 out of 5]

This excellent book from a tree propagator should be read by anyone concerned about climate change, feeding the people of today and the future, biodiversity loss, atmospheric carbon.
Maybe you have seen the YouTube video of a TED talk about restoring desertifying land using mobs of cattle, bunched and moved regularly. What the cattle do is eat up dead grasses and put organic compost, including seeds, on the ground. Traditional mixed farmers and organic farmers know this already. In just the same way, this book explains how plants naturally put carbon, humus and moisture in the ground for microscopic life to break down. By flattening fields and tilling them humans destroy the structure and biology of the soil, until there is nothing left but bare clay that needs chemical fertiliser, watering, then weedkiller and pesticide because there are no predators for the pests.

The author gives us the benefit of all the lessons he has learned. The trees he plants grow fast, healthy young stocks for planting out elsewhere. While the author doesn't like selling potted trees, preferring bare roots, I would point out that his wish not to sell his soil with a tree, means the tree has none of the microbes with it in its new home.

I like the section on how old forests are full of pits where a tree uprooted and mounds where a tree trunk lay and rotted. Amphibians will live in the pits but a good point is that fish can't because they dry up, so the life that fish would eat can thrive. In redwood forests, not mentioned, the seedlings grow on the length of a nurse tree like this, roots reaching down for water and nutrients provided by fungi. Mixed stands of trees are also favoured by any sensible forester, because of the possibility of disease and squirrel strike; deciduous trees with their annually shed, fast rotting leaves are mixed through conifers to fertilise and improve the soil. In Ireland, UCD studies proved that biodiversity shoots up from five bird species to twenty-three when a soft edging of shrubs and smaller native trees are planted around a block of spruces.

The author takes us through budding, grafting, rooting and growing from seed, with many recommendations including a list of what is good to add to soil, from wood chips to comfrey tea and cardboard. Biochar is presented as the best long term way to add fertiliser and sequester carbon.

Then the author presents his 'allies' the major types of tree which can feed us and replace ground crops to a great extent. Sweet chestnuts (we are more familiar with horse chestnuts here) produce vast quantities of rich nuts and the author suggests hybridising Asian varieties with the American varieties to impart resistance to Asian fungal strains. This is being carried out on European trees. He tells the story of the American chestnut, a keystone species and supporter of many farm families, wiped out by disease. We learn of the attempts to save it by outcrossing, still under way. And as the young pure trees die after 15 years but have produced seed and sprout from the root, they can be kept going, which is what happened with elm trees here after Dutch Elm disease. I am hoping the coppiced trees will develop resistance which they pass on to seeds.

Apples; poplar, which is only good for paper and matches but helps with biodiversity and draining water; ash; mulberry; elderberry (perfect edge of forest shrub); hickory; hazelnut; black locust; beech; these are the core trees the author advises us to plant, for wildlife and ourselves. We don't have all of them here (I'd put in walnut, oak and rowan) but I'd take any of them over a sterile stand of Sitka. We are given information about each species and its benefits, how to grow it.

The author tells us some exercises to help us relax, open to the natural world and see better. He mentions one called 'owl eyes' or seeing with peripheral vision (he calls it wide vision) and he says this can help you find things at night. The reason would be that the focal vision is handled mostly by cone cells in the eye, which see colour, but the peripheral vision sees with a good mix of rod cells which see black and white, so they have an advantage in low light and spot movement.

Last we get a list of books on trees, farms and pre-Columbian culture which the author recommends. I would add the excellent The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben about the apex beech forests in central Europe and how they and other trees communicate and support life.

I enjoyed this read very much, as a tree surgeon and ecologist, and it is packed with colour photos and some old b/w ones, so we get a good understanding of the subject matter. Gardeners, tree lovers, ecologists, farmers and those mentioned at the start who want to reverse climate change, need to read this book.
Notes P273 - 276. I counted three names which I could be sure were female.
I downloaded an e-ARC from Net Galley (but will be getting my own copy). This is an unbiased review.

[Alicia Bayer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was really torn on how many stars to give this book. On the one hand, there were ways that I felt it could have been improved. There are no ID pictures of the trees, the author does seem to "brain dump" as another reviewer put it (but what a brain full of information he has on trees!) and it's a bit of a long and wandering read in places. It lacks the quick sound-byte character of many books these days, full of charts and summaries and short sections with cliff notes written right on the pages. It's a deep dive into the world of a guy who lives for trees, raising and selling thousands a year and foraging from many more.

All that said, it's a phenomenal book and it's one I highly recommend for anyone interested in permaculture, homesteading, climate change or (obviously) trees. Silver is a passionate environmentalist and he raises some wonderful points. One statement that he makes early in the book resonated with me especially -- that as environmentalists we need to abandon the goal of trying to "wreck the world slower." He points out that most of our changes only cause harm more slowly than the current systems and are less awful for the environment. He says he doesn't want to wreck the world at all but wants to actually improve the world. Now that's a goal we all need to switch to.

Silver shows how the ten trees featured are phenomenally good for homesteaders and for the world at large. He writes that hickory nuts produce a delicious oil that we could easily be using for cooking, and the nuts are just rotting at our feet by the billions. An expensive nut press is needed to make the oil but he points out that every town used to have a mill and a press and people would just bring their crops to use it. That really makes sense. Everyone doesn't need a press, just communities or cooperatives.

He says, "Everyone I have offered a taste of the oil to looks up at me in surprise and says something like: 'Wow' or 'Oh my God.'"

"Here is a hickory tree that we don't have to shell to enjoy. Here is a vegetable oil raining down from the sky in enormous quantities. A 5-gallon bucket of nuts in the shell will yield 1/4 gallon of oil. I have filled 5-gallon buckets of bitternuts in as little as 30 minutes. This tree is offering a tremendous gift, if we can only see it. When a million gallons of high-quality vegetable oil fall on the ground and we ignore it and plow up the earth to grow rapeseed (for canola oil), there is a disconnect. The soil suffers, wildlife suffers, and we do, too. The time is here for us to use hickory oil."

This is how I feel about acorns and why I wrote a book about foraging and cooking with them. They are literally going to waste under our feet by the billions while we grow crops for flour and food that's not even as nutritious or tasty as what acorns produce (after the bitter tannins are leached out). He doesn't write about acorns/oaks but he does include elderberries in his 10 favorite trees -- another of my favorites obviously, as I've written about foraging and using those as well. And while I am very familiar with some of the other trees he writes about, such as apples, I really want to look for more information on some of the others he profiles, both as a forager and as an urban homesteader.

We really need to start teaching about all of the wonderful food (and other gifts) that surround us and are so much better for the earth than our current practices. This book is a phenomenal introduction to how we can do this with just these ten species of trees that are already all around us.

I got this book as a temporary digital ARC last winter but was unable to finish it before it was deleted. I read enough of it to know that I wanted to read it all, so I ordered it through inter-library loan and finished the paperback copy.

This book has the potential to do exactly what Silver says he wants to do -- not wreck the world slower but make the world a whole lot better. Highly recommended.

[David Wineberg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Akiva Silver is a tree crops evangelist. I don’t think there is a tree he hasn’t thought about to make meals, and money out of. That’s the main difference between Trees of Power and other nature, gardening or farming books. Everywhere he looks, Silver sees the potential for new markets. Throughout, he looks at everything as a cash crop. From perennial spring medicinal flowers to fall chestnuts, the forests provide sellable crops, often in ways we have yet to master.

The book is a brain dump from someone who lives for his trees. Silver moves 20,000 bareroot cuttings and seedlings every year. He knows how much and what kind of mulch is best, how to apply nitrogen fertilizers, and when to water. He knows where threes prefer to be, and depending on where they are, how much they grow in a year. Mostly, he knows what he can make of them in terms of food, shelter, income, and also peace of mind.

There are two sections. The first deals with propagating trees by seed, grafting, layering and cuttings. These apply to different degrees with different trees. Silver prefers selling bareroot trees that he grows, storing them in and on the ground and in his unheated basement. He dislikes selling potted trees because they are unnaturally rootbound, which can girdle and kill the tree, and because he is basically exporting the rich soil he needs to grow the trees with every pot that leaves the farm. They also take up too much floor space, compared to the piles of bareroot specimens he accumulates. He can produce those 20,000 trees a year in less than one of his 20 acres.

The second section is profiles of his top ten trees. Unlike most such books, there are no portraits of mature trees or detailed paintings of leaves, seeds and flowers. There are plenty of totally nonprofessional color photos, mostly of clumps of plants he identifies, but are hard to appreciate on the page. Lots of shots of his three kids too. The trees are appreciated for their fruit, their lumber, their unique approach to survival, their contribution to the ecosystem, and their ease of propagation.

The ten trees are chestnut, apples, poplar, ash, mulberry, elderberry, hickory, hazelnut, black locust and beech. All are native to his upstate New York farm.

Along the way, there are some interesting insights:
-In his forest walks, Silver noticed it was never flat. There were pits and mounds everywhere. Step in a pit, and it was wet and squishy. And there were always trees growing on the mounds. The mounds were the stumps of dead trees, and the pits were the holes left by older trees falling over. Trees thrive on the high ground of the mound, with the ability to tap the moisture of the pits as needed.
-When Europeans came to farm, the first thing they did was flatten the land, filling in the pits and clearing the mounds. Nature required the variety, while farmers needed the convenience and symmetry of flatlands. Convenience won.
-Glyphosate is not simply a herbicide, but actually registered antibiotic. This means it kills the naturally needed bacteria in the soil, not just the weeds. It can leave fields totally sterile. And help create new antibiotic resistance.
-Today it is common for agricultural fields to contain around one percent organic matter.

David Wineberg

[Natalie Sutton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Akiva was relatable and inspiring in his descriptive journey, but the unforgettable value of this book for me is it's detailed instruction on propagation techniques relative to each variety.

[Henry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative read about growing productive trees and how to tend to orchards. Very naturalist approach to tree-tending, drawing on ancient knowledge, trial and error, and working with the land as opposed to attempting to dominate it. Makes me want to own land and be a steward of orchards.

This would be a great book to have on hand during societal collapse. The writing kind of sucked though.

[Cheryl Gatling]

If the world could be changed through sheer enthusiasm, Akiva Silver would have transformed it already. Of course he has changed his corner of the world. He runs a tree nursery in Upstate New York where he plants trees, sells trees, harvests fruits and nuts for sale. But he envisions so much more: a world where trees are valued everywhere, where trees and humans are partners, where trees rain down bushels of fruits and nuts with less labor and fewer pesticides than are required for annual monocultures. The soil will be held in place, and not lost to erosion as happens with annual tilling of crops. Carbon will be sunk into the ground. Livestock will graze under the trees, eating fallen nuts and leaves. Butterflies and bees and birds will flourish. Children will play in the shade.

This is both a practical and a spiritual vision. On a spiritual plane he urges us to acknowledge that humans and trees, and likewise all plants and animals, are all joined together in the great thing called life, we are all leaves on the same tree, fingers on the same hand. On a practical basis, he recognizes that everyone has to eat and make a living. He constantly offers ideas for ways a person can use trees as a source of income. And he offers very detailed instructions for how to cut a graft, how to overwinter seeds without them getting moldy, how to keep birds and rodents from eating your seedlings.

The book begins with a philosophical (yet practical) introduction explaining how he came to be the tree person he is, how he believes that trees are sentient beings, and they respond to us as we help them. He also addressed the issue of environmentalist burnout. With so many complex problems facing our world, how do people who love nature keep from being depressed? After all, we can’t solve everything. For Silver, hope comes with just getting busy doing the work. He would rather be outdoors with the trees than writing grant proposals or lobbying governments.

The next section of the book is the how-to section. How to run a tree nursery. How to improve the soil with swales and berms. Scarification and stratification of seeds. Air pruning of roots. How close together to plant. Layering, grafting, coppicing, mulching, mowing, providing pollinators, discouraging voles. If you don’t plan to propagate your own trees, you will probably zone out during some of this. If you do, it will be a gold mine of information.

The next section lists his choice of ten trees that he considers some of the most beneficial. (The ten trees are chestnut, apple, poplar, ash, mulberry, elderberry, hickory, hazelnut, black locust, and beech.) For each tree he lists their good points and their limitations. He describes some of the varieties available, and the strengths and weaknesses of each. He tells what diseases and pests are a problem, and how to manage them. He tells about their history, and his experience with each, and all the possible good uses they could be put to, and their potential for the future. And get ready for the superlatives: the most generous fruit-giver, the best firewood in the history of firewood, the greatest magnet for all kinds of wildlife.

Silver is a man in love, and a man on fire with optimism. Hickory nuts may be hard to shell, but someone can come up with a machine. We can do it, if we just give it more attention. This enthusiasm is infectious. With every tree Silver described, I thought, yeah, I gotta get one of those (or two, or three, for pollination). I also enjoyed the times he was testy bordering on snarky, like when he complained about mulberry trees that were bred to be sterile, fruitless males. He said, “Sometimes I just don’t understand people. Why would anyone want a mulberry that doesn’t make fruit? That would be like having a car that doesn’t drive, or a pen that doesn’t write.” Silver’s opinions are not always the same as the prevailing wisdom. For instance, with trees such as the chestnut or ash, which are threatened with extinction because of disease, we should not plant less of them, but we should plant more, because that is how we may discover the disease resistant ones. And about black locust, he says that many people hate them, and some governments ban them as invasive, he said they don’t crowd out other species, but restore degraded land to fertile soil so that other hardwoods can flourish there again, and also black locust lumber is always in hot demand because of its durability.

But I could go on and on, and that’s probably enough. I should go out and plant something now.

[David Hopkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Akiva Silver is a neighbor who has provided me with numerous trees in exchange for honey. He’s visited my home and woodland, shared his perspectives, and taught me about the trees where I live. I enjoy his kindness and intelligence. I’m grateful that he’s put it down in words. I’m proud of his writing and I’ve told him so.

Akiva has an affection for the woodlands that is contagious in this book. His enthusiasm is woven with his wholistic and knowledgeable insight into his chosen ten trees, the prime subjects of his book. His attitude of being kind and generous permeates his writing.

“Mulberries are a gift to yourself, your kids, your grandkids, songbirds, wildlife, livestock, and the world in general. .. few trees can match the generosity… plant a lot… the world is only better…”

His opening chapter Fountains of Light is focused on his attitude and approach to his life with trees. He’s a young thinker who has given deep consideration to his life lessons. Though he’s young he’s eager to provide guidance for our relationships with nature and environmentalism, spirituality and wholistic respect for trees as living beings in their environment. With a nod towards humans also as beings of nature, he lays out a balanced perspective that is joyous and filled with youthful wonder. His attitudes are prevalent throughout the instructions he provides for planting and propagation as well as the details specific to his chosen Ten Trees of Power.

As the introductory chapter of philosophy and orientation continued I skimmed more, flipped pages faster, and muttered about too much preaching. Regardless, I appreciate Silver's outlook and the way it shapes and permeates his instructions throughout the book. His guidance for planting and propagating trees is valuable. The pure information is where I find great value in the book. The detailed information is stimulating as well as informative. I’ve gained a can-do attitude about these trees with a great reference for success. I imagine the book will be handy on my shelf for the duration.

For me, learning how to live well with trees, growing them, and harvesting from them begins with “Elderberry, The Caretaker”. The skim-reading led me quickly to the 12th chapter where Mr. Curiosity landed in pursuit of greater detail. Struggling to remove the enthusiastic fast-growing thickets from the garden these plants are currently in my world. We're removing large tangles of roots and re-propagating them all over the place, but not in the garden!

Soon I'll follow my interest to the chapters about hazelnuts, apples, mulberries, and black locust that already have my keen attention. Also in my view is ash, beech, poplar, and chestnut. I’ll make my way into those chapters in time and according to my activity in the gardens, meadow, and woods. With this book, I feel like I’m prepared to turn a corner towards better stewardship of my home.

Once again, I’ve attached to a book that I’ve not read from beginning to end. It’s not a novel or even historical fiction, but there is a story embedded. It’s worthy of sharing and review. 4 stars.

[Zach · Rating 4 out of 5]

Akiva's writing has a really wonderfilled quality, with each page he invites us not only to think, and to understand, but to feel and to empathize. His writing is really a strength and carries forward the book, making it an enjoyable, soulful read. Along the waya he discusses trees in their relations to wildlife, ecosystems, and climate. Akiva has built a lot of experience for himself growing trees professionally for a decade, and so his propagation guidance is sound, balanced, and conveyed in a way to make the understanding easy and the propagation joyful. That said, as someone who has been growing native fruit and nut trees myself, I found that his book is really best suited for either beginners or for people looking to expand their horticultural repertoire into new territory. Akiva grows on a model of selling bare-root trees, which have superior root systems to potted trees, and require less inputs of say, potting soil, thus lowering his costs. He also discusses his ingenious air pruning systems. Using Akiva's techniques, one could create their very own, low-budget, small-scale tree nursery for the benefit of their ecology, community, and even profit. All in all, a concise, well-rounded guide to growing tree crops in the northeast.

[Jess Macallan · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're interested in permaculture, regenerative farming, sustainability, food forests, or want to enhance your organic gardening skills, pick up a copy of this book. The author shares his love for and talents with cultivating trees harmoniously with nature. I appreciated his focus on stopping to pay attention and learn from trees rather than merely learning about them, and also the emphasis on how trees are sentient beings.

Readers will enjoy the comprehensive look at the allies--he offers an entertaining and informative blend of stories, differences between species and varieties, propagation, harvesting, dealing with pests and disease, wildlife value, and commercial possibilities for each tree. He focuses on ten trees--Chestnut, Apple, Poplar, Ash, Mulberry, Elderberry, Hickory, Hazelnut, Black Locust, and Beech.

I love that he ends with ideas for creating awareness and plenty of resources to explore.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

[Sølvi Goard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good attempt to forge a path somewhere between a botanical / agroforestry textbook and a Kimmerer-style exploration of specific species and how to build a more reciprocal relationship with them. Apart from an odd jab at 'scientists' (apparently don't trust them...most of this book is science pal?) this is a strong entry point into a richer understanding of what species we can work with. From an agroforestry and ecology perspective, and an ecological one, I think it's also important to think about how species might interact. I get the impression he has a lot of land to work with, which isn't the case for everyone, or many people at all.

Good book though, and I've definitely gone through and bookmarked local castanea sativas on inaturalist to try and get some chestnuts later this year.

TL;Dr, sweet chestnuts are great, but horse chestnuts are poisonous, don't eat them.

[Finlay Beach · Rating 5 out of 5]

This review is over due. This book helped get me through the first months of the pandemic. The discussion of nature and trees, helps put ones time horizon into perspective. It takes time for trees to grow. They suffer their own pandemics and carry on with their strengths and weaknesses--a great reminder for humanity. Akiva Silver creates an interesting perspective and a compelling message. I planted twenty trees after reading this book... it is convicting.
But that is only part of the reason I loved this book. It is a classy work. The cover and paper have an amazing feel, it's like the trees of paper tried harder to captivate the reader. It is very well edited and the perfectly balanced with stories and facts and practical advice. If the goal is to make a compelling argument on how to save the earth using trees... mission accomplished!

[Colette · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an incredibly enjoyable book to read. I live in a completely different climate from Silver, but I’m going to be looking for trees in each family that I may be able to grow in my area. I came away from reading almost every chapter thinking, “I must find a way to grow that tree.” Silver’s enthusiasm for the plants he loves is very apparent and infectious. I appreciate that he is an environmentalist who has good, doable ideas, and who doesn’t think people are incompatible with nature. Rather, he advocates for using our trees to bring people up, as well as to bring humans back into better relationship with nature.

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

The world is better for having a book like this in it and I feel great for having read it. Lots of great discussion on tree crops and their uses with a particular focus to the American North east.

This book gives you enough inspiration and direction to start dreaming of your very own tree nursery that you've never thought of before. Air pruning, bare rooting... the mind goes on

Loved the tone throughout and the ending too with its ideas/practises of centring urself in the world etc

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love, love, love this book. I live in the PNW so I'm not the target audience here. For those of you east of Texas in Oak, Hickory, or Maple dominated forests, you're going to love it. Good as a tree appreciation course, even better as a start your own plastic-free tree propagation course. Just great. So jealous of those of you in shagbark hickory territory...and I love that he profiles Black Locusts.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

A permaculture gardening/market garden book that deep dives into care and maintenance of ten selected tree species that are valuable from several perspectives. He even shares ideas to develop small businesses based on most of the species - and the ideas aren’t all “pick your own”. Actually, I don’t recall any of the ideas being “pick your own”.

Regardless, it was a well written, well researched reference that many gardeners would find useful. I am likely to purchase a copy.

[Corrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely love this book. It's life changing. I can't wait to put some of these techniques into practice. As I read each chapter that's my new favourite tree. And there are some really exciting things to learn about - Bitternut Hickory?! Hungarian Timber type Black Locust?!! What! Really cool.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good introduction to growing trees as it covers a lot of the relevant subject matter. A little bit ideological and not super organized or technical/thorough, but it does contain a LOT of useful information and the book has character that makes it personal and enjoyable to read, which is an accomplishment for such a dense collection of bursery/ecology lessons.

[Dallin Day · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good book, coming from someone who doesn't know a lot about trees. There were some very dry sections, namely the chunk about grafting and other forms of tree care that, to my mind, just didn't need to be there for a book aimed at tree novices. Still, learning about the trees detailed in the book was fascinating and made me want to plant a forest.

[Daniel Stokes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worth it

This ended up being a really good read. I'm working on growing my own orchard/ food forest, and this book makes strong cases for growing trees that I knew next to nothing about.

[Vaclav Adler · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is awesome! I know the author of the book from YouTube and I wanted to support him buying the book, as I said the book is great and inspiring. Thx

[Todd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great info on planting, caring, and using trees. This book is worth reading just for the Afterword and life philosophy.

[Joanne McKinnon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tree lover book

My home is surrounded by a forest. I want to leave it healthy and thriving for futur generations. What I have learned in this book will help me achieve my mission.

[Rebecca Stilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Skimmed it. Interesting

[Keith Holbein · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very helpful book that is both practical and inspirational. Silver's passion for trees is contagious.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Silver has lots of experience with all sorts of agriculture and his wisdom and experience are on display in this book. Makes me want to plant and grow and learn.

[Will G · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hippy spiritual in the front and back with solid permiculture business in the middle.

[Natasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It is very inspiring, and I listened to it twice in a row.
I want to tell the author about my own favorite trees, and I want to start planting tree crops ASAP.

[Tim Starck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very important book that I'll be reading again and agai. Practical and informative

[Donna Muellner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Loved it. Interesting facts on using trees as a crop. Getting back to diversity in plants.

[onprema · Rating 5 out of 5]

Akiva selects a handful of native trees and provides accessible and practical information about them.