Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Story Within A Healing Grove -- Introduction Holly, Oak, and Pine: Enter My Personal Forest -- I Our Heritage and Traditions -- 1 Igboro-Egun: Grove of the Ancestors -- 2 Calabash: Vessel of African Culture, Spirituality, and Survival -- 3 Black Folk Be Workin' Dem Roots Long, Long Time: An African Herbalist's Overview -- 4 Ceremonies, Rites, and Oracles of the Wood: Transatlantic African Tree Veneration -- II Remedies and Rituals for Daily Life -- 5 Out Bush: Filters, Shields, and Field Guides -- 6 Ways and Means: Tools and Techniques for Africa-Inspired Herbalists -- 7 Seeds, Nuts, Pods, and Oils -- 8 Fruit of Mother Nature's Labor: Soul-Nourishing Berry and Fruit Trees -- 9 Bark, Gum, Sap, Resins, and Moss Medicine -- 10 Very Important Palms: VIPs of the Transatlantic Tree World -- Epilogue Seeds of Hope: Participation in Villages Far and Wide -- Resources and Organizations -- Appendix A: Resources -- Appendix B: Study and Apprenticeships -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.