Blog & Updates

Orion Magazine's Old Growth reviewed in Brain Pickings

Sep 11, 2021

Maria Popova Loved "The Things Trees Know", a Sprout Lands excerpt

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Interview on the Plant A Trillion Trees Podcast

Sep 02, 2021

Wide Ranging tree conversation with Eva Monheim and Hal Rosner on the Plant A Trillion Trees podcast.

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Painting as A Harvest. Talk at Clark Art Institute

Aug 26, 2021

Nikolai Astrup's metaphysics of light in his gardening and his painting.

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Finding the RIbbon of Light

Jun 04, 2021

In a dense forest, some trees can get ahead by growing out over a stream, but it takes real gymnastics to do it!

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The Creativity of Hemlock

Jul 28, 2020

Hemlock trees even keep their own stumps alive, so the forest can keep growing.

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The Creativity of American Beech

Jul 12, 2020

Beech can even invade the impenetrable hemlocks.

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The Creativity of Basswood

Jul 03, 2020

As wild as are the roots of yellow birch, the branches of basswood are wilder. You can't keep a good basswood down.

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Voyaging Roots -- The Yellow Birch

Jun 13, 2020

Yellow birch roots are great travelers

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Paperback of Sprout Lands is Out

May 25, 2020

The ancient commons are a model for today's urban forest.

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Sprout Lands: A Conversation with William Bryant Logan with Robin Wall Kimmerer

Aug 29, 2019

A lecture by William Bryant Logan, author of Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees, followed by a conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass (2014).

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