For anyone whose land is mostly trees. Brett McLeod is an associate professor of forestry and natural resources at Paul Smith's College in upstate New York, and the book starts where a wooded property actually starts: taking stock of the forest makeup, species by species, and working out what it can produce. Then the tools, axes, bow saws, chainsaws and the rest, and how to use them without wrecking yourself or the woodlot.

After that it is all production. Creating pasture and silvopasture so livestock can graze under the canopy. Pruning and coppicing trees so they keep cutting for fuel, fodder and furniture. Building living fencing and animal shelters out of what is already standing. Planting a woodland orchard of fruit trees and berries in the light gaps. Tapping birch, walnut or boxelder for syrup rather than only maple. Growing mushrooms on logs. Along the way it carries the stories of other homesteaders who worked out the same problems on their own ground.

Storey states on the back cover what one acre in one year can do: produce a face cord of firewood, harvest five bushels of fruit, make syrup out of maple, birch, walnut or sycamore, save more than $200 by growing your own fenceposts, save more than $300 on feed for small livestock by using natural forage, grow $100 worth of mushrooms, and grow enough willow whips to weave a basket for the harvest. A 240 page paperback with a foreword by Philip Ackerman-Leist, published June 30, 2015.