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Ali Ward: This is an episode you're going to listen to one once. It's also Native American Heritage Month and there are more episodes with Indigenous ologists linked in the show notes, whole bunch of them. We cover what is a moss? Where do they grow? Can you eat them? Should you have one as a bath mat? Are they soft and abon? What's up with Lycan? How to incorporate your native teaching into your science work or how to recognize and appreciate indigenous knowledge without appropriating it?"

It’s November and you need chill vibes. And Native American Heritage Month is the perfect time to encore this classic. World-renowned author, botanist, Indigenous ecology professor and bryologist Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Gathering Moss” and “Braiding Sweetgrass,” talks about her passion for moss. Cozy up for the most beautifully doled-out information about hidden worlds, overlooked mysteries, botanical drama, forests in miniature, Native peoples’ uses for moss and philosophies about science and ecology. Dr. Kimmerer will change the way you see mosses forever, will inspire you to wear a loupe on a rope, and will soothe your soul with her beautiful voice and prose. Also bathmats, lawns and smoothies made of moss? We discuss.

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Look for her books at independent bookstores or wherever books are sold (including Amazon): “Braiding Sweetgrass” and “Gathering Moss”

Donations went to the ESF’s Center for Native Peoples and the Environment and American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)