📖 Planting Sweetgrass, pages 1-60
The past year has been full of more alone time than expected, and it can often feel like we are simply waiting on better days to arrive—days when we can visit with friends and family without worry.
Dr. Kimmerer teaches us how pecans participate in mast fruiting, meaning some years they produce no seeds, and other years they produce thousands upon thousands of seeds. 🌱
Over generations, pecans thrive off this way of living. In lean years, they take in carbohydrates and store energy. In fruiting years, they put forth that stored energy and flower together all at once. “All flourishing is mutual.”
Perhaps these are just lean years—time to conserve energy and re-enforce the safety net around yourself and loved ones. We hope you are surviving this time as best you can, and we look forward to a year we can flower together again! ❤️
