Despite the growth of geographies of landscape restoration in Europe, the extent to which it provides livelihoods for local communities remains unclear. This article argues that landscape restoration constitutes a strategy of livelihood when enacted by place-based communities. Using an ecological livelihood framework and ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores a case of community-led landscape restoration transitioning a landscape degraded by industrial forestry to an ecologically diverse and resilient one. By being attentive to relations of interdependence, it illuminates the micro-politics, everyday practices and more-than-human relations that sustain and shape the restoration process. It reveals landscape restoration as a pragmatic strategy to address environmental vulnerability, disrupt dominant land use and imaginaries, and sustain the more-than-economic life of the community. The article suggests that practicing landscape restoration from a minor position of power requires translocalising the transformation of place and enlisting more-than-humans in the life project of the community.