Sweetgrass has a long and important history here in the U.S. and Canada, and you can grow it in your own yard for its many benefits. Here's how.

Sweetgrass is a perennial grass with hollow stems and underground rhizomes. It has a purple, red, and white hairless base and can grow to about 30 inches tall. Sweetgrass flowers early for a ...

ST. STEPHEN — For most of his 80 years, Joe Mazyck has been harvesting the soft, pliable sweetgrass used to make the iconic baskets that have been woven by slaves ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass was first published more than 10 years ago but is still finding new audiences today.. The book is part botany, part Indigenous history and culture ...

They're working to plant as much sweetgrass as they can on the conservancy’s preserved properties on Betsy Kerrison Parkway so the Gullah Geechee can come and take what they need at any time. So ...

Home; News; News Detail 02/16/2024. MacArthur Fellow and author Robin Wall Kimmerer, who wrote Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, will discuss ...

When “Braiding Sweetgrass” came out in the fall of 2013, it had a print run of 8,000 copies, and wasn’t reviewed by any major newspapers or magazines.

The First Blade of Sweetgrass Suzanne Greenlaw and Gabriel Frey, illus. by Nancy Baker. Tilbury House, $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88448-760-9 ...

When “Braiding Sweetgrass” arrived on the bestseller list in February 2020, it surprised the literary world. The book hadn’t followed the usual path: It had come out more than six years earlier.