An article written by our partners Anima Mundi Herbals
For your kitchen shelves, for your heart’s yearning for deeper connection to plants, and for more about how to integrate science and tradition, check out our top picks for those herb-loving October and November book clubs. Reading one of these eight titles already? Tag us on Instagram @animamundiherbals to share with the community about the books that resonated most with you. As the Indigenous North American proverb goes: “Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.”

A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle by David Young, Robert Rogers, & Russel Willier

Native American Herbalism Encyclopedia by Tamaya Kawisenhawe

The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer

Here’s to getting involved in the continuum of indigenous wisdom via plants and people!
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