The free library
Every book, guide, and course I've written is free to read in the app: https://app.planethealers.org Seventeen titles, from a first-week workbook through the 71-chapter Fundamentals textbook. No tier, no signup wall, no trial.
I spent thirty years learning this, and I'd rather it reached the person with a degraded field and no budget than sit behind a payment page earning me a modest living.
Two things carry a price. The full-photo editions of the books, because those are made objects with hundreds of field images in them. And time on the land at Tsunul, because feeding and housing people costs real money. Both have a sliding scale.
Resources
BOOKS & GUIDES
Stage 1 - Awakening
Learn how ecosystems work and why they break down. Start noticing. The sit spot practice anchors everything — ten minutes a day, outside, with your senses open.
Stage 2 - Seeing
Learn to read a landscape — soil, water, species, disturbance history. Your species journal grows. The daily prompts shift from sensory to ecological.
Stage 3 - Doing
Hands in the soil. Plan and carry out restoration on a real site, planting natives, removing invasives, and tending what you've started. The work is real, logged, and part of a collective effort.
Also in the App:
- Living Soils: 7 Steps
- Working with Water
- Syntropic Agriculture
- Permaculture
Stage 4 - Teaching
Pass it on. Mentor, lead, create content from your own experience. Answering questions, guiding newcomers, sharing what you've learned in the field.
Stage 5 - Building
Long-term stewardship. Start or join a restoration community. The practice becomes the way you live and the work outlasts you.
The full-photo editions
The propagation books and the Fundamentals textbook carry hundreds of field photographs, most of them Sophia's. Those images don't fit in an app, so the designed editions stay for sale as printed and digital objects.
The words are identical to the free versions. You're buying the pictures and the object, never the teaching.
Nature Notes
Dispatches from the land
Written from Tsunul Reserve
They are field notes—written the way field notes are written, from specific mornings
in specific places, noticing what is actually there rather than what ought to be.
Once a fortnight, from Tsunul Reserve in the Yucatán: what is growing, what is returning,
What surprised us was what the monitoring data showed and what the camera trap recorded.
Sometimes a poem. Sometimes, a question the land itself seemed to ask.
Every piece, free, every time. There's a paid button on Substack for anyone who wants the writing to reach further, and it holds nothing back.
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🌿 Discover the Planet Healers Video Library
Explore the wonders of ecological restoration and sustainable living through our inspiring videos. From hands-on tutorials to breathtaking success stories, our videos aim to educate, empower, and ignite action for a healthier planet. Dive in and be part of the movement to heal our world, one ecosystem at a time.
Watching the Sunrise Over a Recovering Forest—The Sit Spot, Emotions, and the Ripple Effect
Planet Healers Series Trailer: Restoring Ecosystems, Protecting Biodiversity, and Healing the Earth
