The Serviceberry Book

The Serviceberry: Abundance & Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer, bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, explores how nature teaches us to live with gratitude, generosity, and community. Through the serviceberry tree, which shares its abundance with birds and other living things, Kimmerer shows how giving and sharing help everyone thrive. Blending Indigenous wisdom with lessons from the natural world, she invites us to rethink our ideas about wealth and success and build stronger relationships with one another and the Earth. 

“The Serviceberry is a profoundly important book about how we might remodel consumer economies around mutuality, generosity, and bountifulness. The time you’ll spend reading this book will, like the time spent picking wild berries, nourish your soul, heart, and mind. I hope to give this book to everybody.” -Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

• Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Publisher: Vision Works
• Publication Year: 2024
• Hardcover
• 128 pages
• Product Dimensions: 5" x 0.26" x 7"

About the Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling collection of essays Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. Kimmerer is donating her advance payments from The Serviceberry to support land protection, restoration, and justice. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.