A Wood of One’s Own · Grafton, Wisconsin

The Companion Library

Everything built alongside the field guide — the guides, the census, the manuals and the records — gathered in one place.

The field guide is the front door. Behind it is the whole working shelf: other field guides for this ground, the restoration dossiers, how to multiply what grows, what the state says to pull out, and the private records. Public references are open to anyone; the personal records ask you to sign in.

The Field Guide & Chapters

A Wood of One’s Own Live
The main field guide, Third Edition — nineteen chapters, sixty-four wild neighbours, the planting plan and the year of work.
/ · index
The Seed Live
A companion chapter — twenty vetted heirloom & open-pollinated seed houses (eight for Zone 5b), plus a full seed-saving how-to.
/the_seed.html

Field Guides & Dossiers — open to all

A Wisconsin Permaculture Field Guide
Twelve core species across Hill, Edge and Swamp — bur & white oak, hickory, walnut, hazelnut, wild plum, serviceberry, pawpaw, elderberry, aronia, tamarack, swamp white oak — with a soil-foundation section, SVG profile and companion-species tables.
/guides/wisconsin_permaculture_field_guide.html
The Grafton Restoration — Working Dossier
The consolidated single-file dossier: MaA soil profile, three-zone catena, full planted inventory with zone-coded cards, cuttings collected, propagation odds, gaps open, and plants ruled out.
/guides/grafton_restoration_dossier.html
MaA — Manawa Silt Loam Planting Guide
The soil-first planting guide for this exact ground: the Manawa silt-loam profile and what it will and won’t hold, drainage class, and species matched to the slope.
/guides/maa_manawa_field_guide.html
Master Compilation & Field Education
The whole restoration end to end — the land and its glacial geology, invasive removal, zone-by-zone planting, propagation, the water feature, fungi, wildlife, edible natives, Indigenous foodways, and sourcing.
/guides/grafton_master_compilation.html

Propagation & Regulation — open to all

The Cloning & Tissue-Culture Manual
Plant micropropagation from first principles — the hub document: contamination science, hormone logic, media formulas, the five-stage framework, diagnostics and a 28-item FAQ, with hand-drawn diagrams and licensed photographs.
Execution manuals: Branch A — modern lab ›Branch B — grid-down / foraged inputs ›
/guides/cloning_manual_master.html
Wisconsin NR 40 — Invasive Species List
The full state invasive-species register (DNR, V.2026.04.09) — prohibited and restricted plants, fish, invertebrates and pathogens, with the Ozaukee County split-status species flagged.
/guides/wisconsin_nr40_invasive_species.html

Seasonal & Growing Notes — open to all

The Year in the Ground
A month-by-month calendar of bloom, harvest and seed-collection for every plant — with an Add-to-Calendar button that exports yearly reminders (bloom, cuttings, prune, fertilize, watering) to Google Calendar.
/guides/the_year_in_the_ground.html
Soil & Potting Notes
Garden-center soils decoded (in-ground vs. container), and how to pot the compact basil — drainage, winter light, and the one distinction that matters.
/guides/soil_and_potting_notes.html

Neighbors — share & swap

The Neighbor Plant Swap Live
A neighborhood board — post what you’re looking for or what you have available to share or swap, and reply to each other (“I’ve got some for you!”). No account needed.
/board/
Your Account Live
Create a free account (just a username & password — your own login, not Cloudflare) to save your own plant inventory, wildlife sightings, and your wants & haves in one place.
/account/

Self-Reliance — open to all

The Long Haul Live
The off-grid, master-edition self-sufficiency guide — water, shelter, fire, energy, food-growing, livestock, hunting & sanitation. The homestead companion to the plant work (pairs with the cloning manual’s grid-down branch).
/guides/the_long_haul.html

Personal Records — sign-in required

What’s In The Ground Gated
The living plant census — every wildflower, shrub, tree, fruit and ornamental confirmed in the soil, with source, cost and planting date, keystone gaps and the cutting-propagation log.
/app/whats_in_the_ground.html
The Master Record Gated
The private ledger — complete inventory with acquisition records & costs, open verification items, propagation protocols, ecological principles, and the chat-by-chat project history.
/app/master_record.html
Frog Habitat — Pond & Stream Build Gated
A versioned, step-by-step build for a frog-friendly pond and seasonal stream on the property — siting, excavation, liner vs. clay seal, water source, planting the margins, and overwintering it through a Wisconsin winter.
/app/pond_stream_build_guide.html
My Plants — Inventory Gated
The interactive inventory tracker: add, edit and photograph each plant, and follow it from want to planted to harvested.
/app/
Still to shelve: the tissue-culture quick-reference card and the spite-fence / solar-rights note live in older chats whose titles don’t match their content; they’ll join the library once located.