Description
Using Native Plants to Restore Community (in Southwest Michigan and Beyond)
by Nancy Cutbirth Small and Tom Small, Co-founders of Kalamazoo Area Wild Ones
- Price: $20 (suggested retail $25)
- Paperback: 270 pages
- Published: 2011 Kalamazoo Area Wild Ones
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
About the book:
- 270 pages of practical, specific advice and inspiration to help you create a more environmentally friendly landscape in yards large and not-so-large
- Featuring 150 original illustrations by distinguished area artists
- Proceeds go to the Nancy Small Memorial Fund for environmental education
Nancy Small spent the last two years of her life writing a book that would include much of Tom’s and her writing over the course of their life together as co-founders and leaders of Kalamazoo Area Wild Ones. During the last months of her life in 2009 she made Tom promise over and over that he would finish the book. He has kept his promise.
Tom has revised and updated many of Nancy’s plant lists for Wild Ones members, as well as many of the essays they wrote, separately or together, for various publications, including newsletters and journals of Wild Ones, Wildflower Association of Michigan, and Quaker Earthcare Witness, the Quaker environmental organization for the Americas. And there’s much entirely new material.
The book includes about 150 wonderful illustrations by five local and regional artists and scientific illustrators: Ladislav Hanka, Amelia Hansen, Elizabeth Henderson, and Nancy Stroupe, all from southwest Michigan, and Nancy Halliday, a scientific illustrator from Illinois. The book’s design is by Linda Judy, a professional book designer who recently retired as the designer for WMU’s Medieval Institute Publications and Cistercian Publications.
