In braiding sweetgrass — so that it is smooth, glossy, and worthy of the gift — a certain amount of tension is needed. As any little girl with tight braids will tell you, you have to pull a bit.

But it was something that I felt I really wanted to say.” The submission was “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants,” which asks readers ...

MacArthur Fellow and author Robin Wall Kimmerer, who wrote Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, will discuss her work on Friday, April 12, at SUNY ...

Author and botanist visited MSU's campus, including the Beal Botanical Garden, during the university's annual Science Festival. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass was first published ...

With her blockbuster book, “Braiding Sweetgrass,” Kimmerer’s ideas about how to repair humanity’s broken relationship with the natural world have spread far.

In 2020, the Minneapolis-based Milkweed saw its sales jump 183% over 2019 thanks to the pandemic-era rediscovery of Braiding Sweetgrass, which was published in paperback in 2015, establishing what ...

A couple of years ago, my husband and I decided to turn our Minnesota yard into a haven for bees and butterflies. We dug out the grass and planted native pollinators — coneflowers and monarda ...

We believe "Braiding Sweetgrass," originally published in 2013, is a compelling choice for our inaugural book club selection because the book explores the intersection of indigenous wisdom ...

When “Braiding Sweetgrass” came out in the fall of 2013, it had a print run of 8,000 copies, and wasn’t reviewed by any major newspapers or magazines.