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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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Service Berries - A Gift Economy

Fysti: Birds provide services to the service berries, who provide for them in return. The relationships created by the gift weave myriad relations between insects and microbes or root systems. Fysti has another benefit. Passage through a bird gut scarifies the seeds to stimulate germination. Without gift relationships with bees and birds, service berries would disappear from the planet.

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