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#WhenTreesTestify... "A Black-ass love note to trees and the power of reckoning with history" - @chanda.blacksky.app

Love this description with all my heart 😍😍😍
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 23
On Tuesday I made a video explaining to people why it's important that they read this book, which is a Black-ass love note to trees and the power of reckoning with history. #BookSky

Earrings by Crystal Galindo
Pillows by Shanequa Gay
January 23, 2026 at 7:54 PM
berondam.bsky.social
Seeing book cover mock up & loving it beyond measure!
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March 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
berondam.bsky.social
What a wonderful night discussing #WhenTreesTestify with brilliant @chanda.blacksky.app!!! Chanda, thanks for your generosity tonight and always!!!
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (left) and Beronda inat table with book When Trees Testify in front and bookshelves full of books behind
February 7, 2026 at 3:14 AM
berondam.bsky.social
Some advance copies of my next book "When Trees Testify" have gone out into the world.

Release date: January 20, 2026

What a journey it has been thus far, and looking forward to the continuing journey ahead.

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Image of stack of four copies of the book "When Trees Testify" by Beronda Montgomery with text above that reads "#WhenTreesTestify Coming Jan. 2026'"
June 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
berondam.bsky.social
Enter to win a copy of #WhenTreesTestify!!
librarything.com LibraryThing @librarything.com · Nov 10
"How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, shared through the stories of long-lived trees."

Enter to win a copy of @berondam.bsky.social's "When Trees Testify" from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
berondam.bsky.social
Thanks to Kerry McHugh for the Shelf Awareness review and interview!!

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macmillanlib.bsky.social Macmillan Library @macmillanlib.bsky.social · Nov 19
This week’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Beronda L. Montgomery’s WHEN TREES TESTIFY, a reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery that offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees. 👉 tinyurl.com/yu5ekrjk
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
berondam.bsky.social
Thanks for the inclusion of "When Trees Testify" as notable nonfiction pick for @libraryreads.bsky.social January 2026 list!
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Pictures of six books with text "Library Reads; January 2026 LibraryReads List"
December 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
marymunson4.bsky.social
This amazing conversation between @berondam.bsky.social and @chanda.blacksky.app focused on Beronda's impactful new book #WhenTreesTestify fills my heart and soul. Thank you both!
Amazing discussion of When Trees Testify
February 7, 2026 at 12:36 AM
methanojen.bsky.social
I had the honor of reading an ARC of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" by @berondam.bsky.social. It is an excellent and very moving fusion of science, history, and memoir. It comes out Tuesday. I highly recommend it. #WhenTreesTestify
Cover of the book "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" by Beronda Montgomery
January 18, 2026 at 5:47 PM
berondam.bsky.social
Last Sunday of 2024 spent in the archives... sleuthing for line edits of #WhenTreesTestify. What an honor and joy it will be to share this book with the world.
December 29, 2024 at 9:38 PM
berondam.bsky.social
Love this AND love libraries!!
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hpiglet.myatproto.social Heather @hpiglet.myatproto.social · Nov 14
It came available for me to place dibs on today in my library's Libby system! Something to look forward to in January.
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
berondam.bsky.social
Two week until launch.... When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy published by @henryholtbooks.bsky.social / @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social.

Pre-order your copy now.

Support a local independent bookstore or Links @ berondamontgomery.com

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January 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
berondam.bsky.social
Grateful to @beaverdalebooks.bsky.social & Des Moines Botanical Garden for an amazing launch event for When Trees Testify: Science Wisdom History and America's Black Botanical Legacy. Amazing group of friends, colleagues, and new acquaintances celebrating this week's launch
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Stacks of book When Trees Testify by Beronda Montgomery
January 22, 2026 at 4:53 AM
berondam.bsky.social
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New Voices New Rooms 2025
@henryholtbooks.bsky.social
My new book coming Jan 2026
Gift bags, name tags, pens and pins on wooden desk Cityscape looking out & down building window
August 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
berondam.bsky.social
~2 months until debut of my next book, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, & America’s Black Botanical Legacy" from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social & the blurbs have me overflowing with gratitude & joy. I'm sharing them this week starting this afternoon.
#WhenTreesTestify coming Jan 20, 2026!
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
adrianabriscoe.bsky.social
A book that deserves all the love #whentreestestify
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Trees Connect Us with Our Ancestors. 'When Trees Testify' Explores the Powerful Link (Exclusive)
"We don’t have to just live with the memories of our ancestors," writes author Beronda L. Montgomery in an exclusive essay for PEOPLE in advance of her new book 'When Trees Testify,' out Jan. 20. "We ...
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February 2, 2026 at 12:14 AM
berondam.bsky.social
I didn't get to know if this tree survived or in what state before I left last night. I'm very thankful for the people who survived, mourn those who didn't, & hold them all close. Falmouth, an adopted home has certainly been changed, as the long recovery begins.

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November 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
berondam.bsky.social
I agree with the sentiment, Taza Chocolate: "It all starts in a tree"

Wonderful tour with guide Gabriel learning the tree to chocolate product pipeline

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Side of yellow cooling container bike with painted tree, Taza chocolate logo and text that reads "It all starts in a tree" "From the farm to us to you"
April 25, 2026 at 12:50 AM
martinebotany.bsky.social
Woot! Lab copies of @berondam.bsky.social ‘s #WhenTreesTestify are on their way. Happy to buy them through my local indie seller, Mondragon Books, via Bookstore.org.

Looking forward to Beronda’s visit to Bucknell in March!
Screenshot from an order for When Trees Testify, saying it has shipped
January 17, 2026 at 12:24 PM
berondam.bsky.social
What a time I had in conversation with @theferocity.bsky.social for Vibe Check. We discussed When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social)
& so much more in this "The Trees Saw Everything" episode.

Listen here:
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The Trees Saw Everything
Vibe Check · Episode
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June 26, 2026 at 3:17 PM
berondam.bsky.social
These sentiments about Black history as guidebook for survival & freedom making resonated so deeply w/me & my son & certainly describe motivations that drove my writing When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, HISTORY, & America's Black Botanical Legacy
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When Trees Testify
This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stor...
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April 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM
berondam.bsky.social
Conversation with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social coming this morning on @kqedforum.bsky.social

Can't wait

www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

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‘When Trees Testify’ They Tell the Story of Black American History | KQED
We talk to Montgomery and hear from you: What’s a tree with special significance to your history?
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January 20, 2026 at 3:26 PM
berondam.bsky.social
She shared her sister's plant-adjacent career & that oak was her sister's favorite. My book "Lessons from Plants" is viewed by some as a leadership & mentoring book. We almost left without speaking but serendipity intervened. I am deeply grateful. #WhenTreesTestify is connecting B4 its 1/2026 debut.
March 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
berondam.bsky.social
Following the informative visit to the small but mighty Museum of African American History in Boston, we popped over for lunch & a quick perusal of Beacon Hill Books & Cafe where Nicolas spots #WhenTreesTestify on display & points in out to me. Two customers overhear & I end up signing some books 😂.
March 30, 2026 at 2:48 AM
berondam.bsky.social
Excited to engage with When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy (from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social / @macmillanusa.bsky.social with the NewSouth Bookstore audience in Montgomery AL on Tuesday March 24 @5:30 PM CDT

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Bookstore event flyer with picture of Beronda Montgomery (center) and cover of book When Trees Testify Science Wisdom History and America's Black Botanical Legacy (right). Text to left reads: Beronda Montgomery joins us for talk about When Trees Testify Tuesday, March 24 at 5:30pm at The NewSouth Bookstore We're excited to announce a bookstore talk by Beronda L. Montgomery in connection with her new book, When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy. This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees. THE NEWSOUTH BOOKSTORE logo
March 24, 2026 at 1:38 AM