![]() ![]() Together these plants––corn, beans, and squash––feed the people, feed the land, and feed our imaginations, telling us how we might live. “I hold in my hand the genius of indigenous agriculture, the Three Sisters. ![]() I hope the lessons and wisdom of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) within the stories will be incorporated into all of our lives, while avoiding cultural appropriation. This is a hugely important book for our times. She beautifully integrates mind, body, emotion, and spirit as she shares “healing stories that allow us to imagine a different relationship, in which people and land are good medicine for each other”. Kimmerer speaks from multiple perspectives as an Anishinabekwe, Potawatomi woman, a mother, a gardener, a philosopher, a botanist and professor of plant ecology, and from so many other aspects of herself. Both make this book, a gift to the co-inhabitants of Mother Earth, even more accessible.ĭr. ![]() It’s also available in an audio version read by the author, and as a beautifully illustrated adaptation, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults. And I believe other gardeners would especially appreciate this book, as I do. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants has so much to offer. ![]()
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