Nature / Environment Book Club: Braiding Sweetgrass

Join us via Zoom as the Mr. & Mrs. F.L. Schlagle Library hosts a book club on titles related to nature, the environment, and/or climate every second Friday of the month from 1 pm - 2 pm (excluding the months of June and July).

Please get in contact with Kristen ([email protected]) in order to register for the program and to receive a copy of this month's book (if available).

Registration in advance is required. Participants will receive the Zoom link via email prior to each meeting.

November 2026

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

From Goodreads:

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 in return.