Read! Plant! Grow!
Tue, Aug 26
|Birch Tree Books + Foliage Plants
Join us for a quarterly discussion of a book about plants and gardening! A collaboration with LCPL, Loudoun Wildlife and Watermark Woods.
Time & Location
Aug 26, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Birch Tree Books + Foliage Plants , 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Buy The Serviceberry on Bookshop.org
If you can't attend in person, join virtually. Join from the LCPL meeting link.
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity,…