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#BlueBrewBooks I didn’t get a book read last week, but this week I’ll be reading “The Serviceberry” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. If you haven’t read her brilliant “Braiding Sweetgrass” (or even if you have) this 100-page illustrated beauty should be a nice bite of inspiration!
Photo of cover of “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
September 27, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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"During a time of tremendous environmental fear and uncertainty, we have found, to our immeasurable relief, our master teacher," writes Elizabeth Gilbert of Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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April 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🌱 "We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world." —Robin Wall Kimmerer
July 19, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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“Alone is a word without meaning in the forest.”
-Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
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February 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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For an uplifting yet quick read, pick up "The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World," in which MacArthur Fellow Robin Wall Kimmerer explores a gift economy with the Serviceberry plant and its surrounding community as an ecological metaphor.

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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer *author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer, Professor, botanist, indigenous woman
July 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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In this cold weather, a fun thing to do for kids and adults is to bring some trees indoors. Take cuttings of small branches, put them in a warm place in some water, and watch what happens. Some trees will do nothing, but many, especially the early-flowering trees, are eager to show their stuff.
A stem of serviceberry, Amelanchier arborea, beginning to open. The twig is red-orange, the bud is showing green leaves and flowers. Copyright Tom Kimmerer A stem of red maple, Acer rubrum, beginning to open. The bud scales are deep red, and the young flowers are brilliant red. Copyright Tom Kimmerer A stem of sassafras, Sassafras albidum, beginning to open. The twig is brown, the openng bud is showing yellow-green flowers and bud scales. Copyright Tom Kimmerer An opening bud of yellow-poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera. Dark bud scales open to reveal bright yellow-green folded leaves and bud scales. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
January 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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“All flourishing is mutual.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer
THE SERVICEBERRY Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World ROBIN WALL KIMMERER AUTHOR OF BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
July 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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🌱 "As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us." —Robin Wall Kimmerer
September 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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"Recognizing 'enoughness' is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Afternoon train reading
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
April 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🌱 "We are not separate hands tending to a wounded Earth; we are the Earth healing itself." —Robin Wall Kimmerer
September 27, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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One benefit of very cold spells in winter is that it can kill or limit the spread of harmful pests and pathogens. I don't know yet whether this cold snap is enough to limit two of our major introduced insects, emerald ash borer and hemlock woolly adelgid. Does anyone know?
An adult emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, sitting on a white ash leaf. The insect, about 2 cm long, is iridescent green and gold. The ash leaves are deep green and shiny. Copyright Tom Kimmerer A large blue ash, Fraxinus quadrangulata, in decline due to emerald ash borer infestation. In front of the tree are four horses prancing across a green grass pasture. Copyright Tom Kimmerer A hemlock branch with dark green needles. At the base of the needles are white fluffy deposits indicating the presence of hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae, which kills hemlock trees. Copyright Tom Kimmerer A mountain slope with a small creek, rocks, and rhododendrons in a stand of dead hemlock trees killed by hemlock woolly adelgid. The nearest hemlock has bright orange bark, which is only seen in dead or dying trees. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
January 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer
A view overlooking a small farm with crops on curving land and trees surrounding it.
May 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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“Libraries are models of gift economies, providing free access not only to books but also music, tools, seeds, and more. We don’t have to own everything.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, THE SERVICEBERRY
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
January 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Braiding Sweetgrass. Robin Wall Kimmerer...
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Let's celebrate Earth Day! Go for a walk in our living world. Touch trees. Be proud about your love for our Earth. Speak up about ending climate change. Speak up about conserving our world. Speak up against the oligarchs who are pushing fossil fuels and pillaging our planet. Make a joyful noise!
Female cone of tamarack, Larix laricina, with bright green cone scales tipped in red attached to a twig. Copyright Tom Kimmerer A white conical flower of silverbell, Halesia carolina, with white petas, bright yellow stamens clustered aound a pink pistil. Copyright Tom Kimmerer Two dark red flowers of pawpaw, Asimina triloba, with yellow round cylinders of stamens. Small flies are sitting on the petals. Copyright Tom Kimmerer A vegetative bud of kingnut, Carya laciniosa, with a cluster of new pale green leaves in the center surrounded by broad, deep red bracts. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
April 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Ready to haul out the rake or leaf blower? Resist the temptation. Leaf litter in the forest or your yard has important benefits for critters - insects, small vertebrates, fungi, and others - and for soil nutrient cycles. Leave them in place, put them in out-of-the-way piles, or compost them.
An orange black maple (Acer nigrum) leaf lit by the sun, surrounded by grass. Copyright Tom Kimmerer Fall leaves touched by frost and lit by the setting sun. Copyright Tom Kimmerer Yellow and gold ginkgo leaves covering the ground, lit by the afternoon sun. Copyright Tom Kimmerer Sugar maple leaves (Acer saccharum) in shades of orange, red, and yellow, covering the ground lit by the afternoon sun. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
October 12, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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“In some Native languages, the term for plants translates to ‘those who take care of us’.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer

have a good one💙
a scarlet firethorn bush showing it's little orange round pommes.
August 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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🌱 "We are not above the web of life - we are strands within it, no different from the wolves, the rivers, or the trees." —Robin Wall Kimmerer
August 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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The Rockcastle River in Kentucky is showing off its spectacular fringetree flower show. Chionanthus virginicus is now a well-known ornamental, but in its native habitat it is simply astonishing.
Flowers of fringetree, Chionanthus virginicus. Copyright Tom Kimmerer Flowers of fringetree, Chionanthus virginicus. Copyright Tom Kimmerer Flowers of fringetree, Chionanthus virginicus. Copyright Tom Kimmerer Flowers of fringetree, Chionanthus virginicus. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
May 19, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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“I wanted to learn why goldenrod and asters were so beautiful together.”
—-Robin Wall Kimmerer
🌱 from Braiding Sweetgrass
Asters and goldenrod
September 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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As spring days warm up, sap drips from cut branches. Enzymes convert stored starch to sugar, which is needed for early spring growth. Dissolved sugar in xylem sap draws water into the stem osmotically, creating positive pressure, filling damaged xylem vessels, and allowing sap collection for syrup.
A drop of xylem sap falls from the cut end of a sugar maple branch, with smaller branches and buds behind. Copyright Tom Kimmerer A drop of xylem sap drips from a freshly cut sugar maple branch with red-brown xylem. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
January 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The Serviceberry:
Abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
April 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The relationships between trees and animals are complicated. Here we have a wind-pollinated bur oak being visited by Andrena bees. Are they foraging for pollen, or pollinating? This tree has sweet-smelling flowers, while adjacent oaks have no odor and are not visited by bees.
An Andrena bee hanging below male flowers of a bur oak. Copyright Tom Kimmerer An Andrena bees flying toward male flowers of a bur oak. Copyright Tom Kimmerer An Andrena bee foraging on male flowers of a bur oak. Copyright Tom Kimmerer An Adrena bee loaded with yellow pollen foraging on male flowers of a bur oak. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
May 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM