Growing Roots Together WINTER Book Club
Sun, Feb 23
|Marni's House (and online via Zoom)
Let's read and learn together! Join the GRT book club and meet like minded gardeners to read and discuss all things gardening, urban farming, food growing/farm to table, sustainable agriculture and more!
Time & Location
Feb 23, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Marni's House (and online via Zoom), Lynnwood, WA, USA
Guests
About the event
Want to meet other gardeners and learn and discuss books that help us grow? Join Marni from Growing Roots Together, and fellow urban farmers, for our next book club read.
What We're Reading:Â
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts…