Library
Free readings from the Planet Healer Path. Available offline.
All of it is here, in full. The photographs aren't, because they'd make the app too heavy to carry. The digital editions carry Sophia's images of the land, and buying one supports the Path.
Looking to work with others? Restore land together. →The Planet Healer Path
Five stages, from first awareness to long-term stewardship.
The Practice and Where to Begin
Find where you are on the Path, and take your next real step.
Ripple: A Field Guide to Hope
The book beneath the science. Grief, love, and why the work matters.
Coming Home to Nature
A Stage One practice workbook for building a felt relationship with the living world.
Fundamentals of Ecosystem Restoration: Ecology
The science beneath the work: how ecosystems function, from planetary boundaries to the soil food web.
Species Identification Starter Guide
A year-long path to genuine fluency with the species around you.
Reading Your Landscape
Seven ways to read what a piece of land is telling you.
Restoration Project Planning Template
A six-stage framework for planning a restoration project, from first site walk to year-one review.
Fundamentals of Ecosystem Restoration: Practice
Applied restoration: principles, site assessment, propagation, planting, monitoring, and case studies.
Living Soil in Seven Steps
The short field guide: stop the harm, feed the biology, cover the ground, and re-seed what's missing.
The Ultimate Guide to Biochar
How to make biochar, how to use it, and why it matters. Written with Sophia Ortiz.
Working with Water
A field manual for restoring the water cycle on your land: slow it, sink it, spread it.
Propagation and Nursery Techniques
Hands-on nursery notes: collecting, cleaning, seeding, transplanting, watering, and weeding native plants.
Trees of Life
Propagating native trees and shrubs, from collecting seed to planting out.
Prairie Wild
Growing native wildflowers and grasses for restoration, gardens and wildlife.
Wild Wetlands
Propagating native wetland plants, and the ecology that decides what grows where.
Syntropic Agriculture
Grow food by growing a forest: succession, stratification, and pruning, for tropical and temperate ground.
A Permaculture Design Manual
Designing with the land: ethics, patterns, zones, water, soil and animals, worked through to a finished design.
Teacher Training Guide
How to teach ecological restoration: in the field, in community, across a lifetime.
The Workshop Design Kit
Three ready-made workshop sessions, take off the shelf and teach.
The Community Restoration Toolkit
How to start a real restoration project, anywhere, with what you have.