Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources, by M. Kat Anderson This fascinating book describes how indigenous Californians managed the land they lived on for many thousands of years before Europeans arrived. The first Californians’ work included burning, irrigating, coppicing, pruning, sowing, trnsplanting, tilling, and weeding, and their labor kept the land and animals healthy and yielded sustainable harvests of many kinds of food, medicine, and building and basketry materials.
This fascinating book describes how indigenous Californians managed the land they lived on for many thousands of years before Europeans arrived. The first Californians’ work included burning, irrigating, coppicing, pruning, sowing, trnsplanting, tilling, and weeding, and their labor kept the land and animals healthy and yielded sustainable harvests of many kinds of food, medicine, and building and basketry materials.
Kate Marianchild is a fine writer, and her welcoming book taught me many things I did not know.