Good Wood: Growth, Loss, and Renewal

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Good Wood is a clear-eyed, finely hewed number of personal essays on farming, forestry, and circle of relatives within the Pacific Northwest. As a young man, Steve Radosevich learned to prune trees by watching his grandfather. Working within the apple orchards of the struggling circle of relatives farm, he saw that “each cut used to be a decision, conscious and deliberate, in regards to the health of the trees and their coming crops.” In Good Wood, Radosevich examines the choices we make in life and how the ones choices have an effect on the health of people and places.

Radosevich draws on his experiences on two farms-the “homeplace,” a circle of relatives farm in Washington’s Yakima Valley, and Kla-kla-nee, his small vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Radosevich could also be a professor of forestry, and his commitment to sustainable forestry informs his writings. His book seamlessly combines recollections of tending smudge pots on freezing spring nights east of the Cascades with discussions in regards to the flooding of Native fishing grounds at Celilo Falls and clearcuts within the Oregon Coast Range. “These kinds of losses,” writes Radosevich, “have been decisions too, made consciously I think, but with less deliberation than the forethought of a farmer pruning his orchard.”

As keeper of the old circle of relatives orchard and tender of a new circle of relatives farm, Radosevich reveals in these stories his deliberate choices and his hopes for the world of his children and grandchildren.

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