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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 ...
"Braiding Sweetgrass," by Robin Wall Kimmerer, is the inaugural Louisiana Inspired book club selection. We believe "Braiding Sweetgrass," originally published in 2013, is a compelling choice ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Emergence magazine asked “Braiding Sweetgrass” author Robin Wall Kimmererto write a story about economics, she was not an obvious choice. “I think I said, ‘I don’t know anything ...
Image With her blockbuster book, “Braiding Sweetgrass,” Kimmerer’s ideas about how to repair humanity’s broken relationship with the natural world have spread far. Published in 2013 by ...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of ...
This philosophy of the “gift economy” is one she touched on in her 2013 book, “Braiding Sweetgrass,” which draws on Native beliefs and traditions as well as science to place humans in the ...