treesdurham book club
Join us on the second Tuesday of each month for the TreesDurham Book Club meeting.
The aim is to create a forum for shared learning and meet new and diverse people with common interests. This is lighthearted and fun club. The members select books each month's book.
The aim is to create a forum for shared learning and meet new and diverse people with common interests. This is lighthearted and fun club. The members select books each month's book.
This Month's Book Club
You are invited to join our next monthly Book Club Meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 12th, 2023 at 6:30 P.M.
Location: Ponysaurus Brewery (219 Hood St, Durham, NC 27701)
If you have additional questions, and for future book club information, contact your host, Berry Puma, at berrypuma@outlook.com.
July Book of the Month
Sprout Lands by William Bryant Logan
Winner of the 2021 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing
Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.
Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.
Location: Ponysaurus Brewery (219 Hood St, Durham, NC 27701)
If you have additional questions, and for future book club information, contact your host, Berry Puma, at berrypuma@outlook.com.
July Book of the Month
Sprout Lands by William Bryant Logan
Winner of the 2021 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing
Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.
Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.
Historical books
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This is your Mind on PlantsIf you're looking for a book list of interesting nature books, you've come to the right place. Below are the books we've read over the past two years. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have!
-The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- What the Robin Knows by Jon Young
- Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
- The Nature of Oaks by Douglas Tallamy
- To Speak for the Trees by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer
- Nature's Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy
- The Song of Trees by David Haskell
- Trees of Power by Akiva Silver
-The Journey of Trees by Zach St. George
- The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
- Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez
- The Treeline by Ben Lawrence
- The Heartbeat of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
- Gathering Moss by Robbin Wall Kimmerer
-This is Your Mind on plants by Michael Pollan
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
- Oak, the Frame of Civilization by William Bryant
- How to Read a Tree by Tristan Gooley