Big Talk's Book Talk

Black Botanical Wisdom, as a Celtic white woman in the US, is the gap in spiritual reality I was looking for. Pulling from learned wisdom of indigenous people pre-colonization, the author outlines Black contributions to the field of botany. It felt like reading a memoir and also a ‘IMPORTANT plants of the US’ at the same time. I love whatever this genre is - similar to Braiding Sweetgrass.

Each chapter is on one ‘plant’ or tree. I learned so much about the history of these plants from their biological makeup to their sociopolitical use in media and culture. Buying a copy will be useful for marking up and revisiting at different times of life, when I want to reconnect with these plants.