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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: Epiphany in the Beans

"People often ask me what one thing I would recommend to restore relationship between land and people. My answer is almost always, “Plant a garden.'" p. 126

Tomatoes from the garden

Rob Bertholf, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Squash plants growing in a garden

USDA NRCS Texas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tomatillos growing in a garden

Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Oriole

Alan D. Wilson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Keywords

Cartesian Dualism: most famously defended by René Descartes, argues that there are two kinds of foundation: mental and physical. (W)

Distill:  to extract the essence of. (MW)

Domesticated: adapted over time (as by selective breeding) from a wild or natural state to life in close association with and to the benefit of humans. (MW)

Epiphany: an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. (MW)

Furrow: a long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow, especially for planting seeds or for irrigation. (OL)

Genotypes: the genetic makeup of an organism; in other words, it describes an organism's complete set of genes. (NL)

Glib: showing little forethought or preparation. (MW)

Mummified: in this case, wrapped like a mummy.

Prolific: causing abundant growth, generation, or reproduction. (MW)

Quantitative: of, relating to, or involving the measurement of quantity or amount (MW)

Reverence: honor or respect felt or shown  (MW)

Trellis: a frame of latticework used as a screen or as a support for climbing plants  (MW)

Unrequited: not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind   (MW)

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