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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.

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Readings by stage
Awakening

Ripple: A Field Guide to Hope

The book beneath the science. Grief, love, and why the work matters.

Awakening

Coming Home to Nature

A Stage One practice workbook for building a felt relationship with the living world.

Seeing

Fundamentals of Ecosystem Restoration: Ecology

The science beneath the work: how ecosystems function, from planetary boundaries to the soil food web.

Awakening

Species Identification Starter Guide

A year-long path to genuine fluency with the species around you.

Seeing

Reading Your Landscape

Seven ways to read what a piece of land is telling you.

Doing

Restoration Project Planning Template

A six-stage framework for planning a restoration project, from first site walk to year-one review.

Doing

Fundamentals of Ecosystem Restoration: Practice

Applied restoration: principles, site assessment, propagation, planting, monitoring, and case studies.

Doing

Living Soil in Seven Steps

The short field guide: stop the harm, feed the biology, cover the ground, and re-seed what's missing.

Doing

The Ultimate Guide to Biochar

How to make biochar, how to use it, and why it matters. Written with Sophia Ortiz.

Doing

Working with Water

A field manual for restoring the water cycle on your land: slow it, sink it, spread it.

Doing

Propagation and Nursery Techniques

Hands-on nursery notes: collecting, cleaning, seeding, transplanting, watering, and weeding native plants.

Doing

Trees of Life

Propagating native trees and shrubs, from collecting seed to planting out.

Doing

Prairie Wild

Growing native wildflowers and grasses for restoration, gardens and wildlife.

Doing

Wild Wetlands

Propagating native wetland plants, and the ecology that decides what grows where.

Doing

Syntropic Agriculture

Grow food by growing a forest: succession, stratification, and pruning, for tropical and temperate ground.

Doing

A Permaculture Design Manual

Designing with the land: ethics, patterns, zones, water, soil and animals, worked through to a finished design.

Teaching

Teacher Training Guide

How to teach ecological restoration: in the field, in community, across a lifetime.

Teaching

The Workshop Design Kit

Three ready-made workshop sessions, take off the shelf and teach.

Building

The Community Restoration Toolkit

How to start a real restoration project, anywhere, with what you have.