Co‐producing urban silviculture: a stone soup approach to transdisciplinary science

On private or community land, urban forest patches are often overlooked but are critical green spaces that provide opportunities for transformative connections between humans and wild nature for local communities and ecosystems. Urban silviculture is an emergent land management practice that is best achieved as a transdisciplinary science, incorporating the knowledge and work of scientists, land managers, landscape designers, policymakers, and local residents to define problems, set long‐term goals, build partnerships, and realize solutions. The case study of Stillmeadow PeacePark, located on the grounds of Stillmeadow Community Fellowship church in Baltimore, Maryland, illustrates the potential for transdisciplinary co‐production of urban silviculture in the US and more broadly. This approach offers new insights into fundamental social–ecological processes and can address press and pulse disturbances at multiple scales. Developing community‐driven transdisciplinary science can be a way to create opportunities for restoration work in communities that have historically been excluded from financial investment and technical services.