FOPOS Book Club: Braiding Sweetgrass // 3.28.25

FOPOS Book Club: Braiding Sweetgrass // 3.28.25

Join FOPOS for a new book club dedicated to readings about conservation, stewardship, and our relationship with nature.

By Friends of Princeton Open Space

Date and time

Friday, March 28 · 10 - 11:30am EDT

Location

Mountain Lakes House

57 Mountain Ave Princeton, NJ 08540

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

Join Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS) at the Mountain Lakes House for a new book club dedicated to readings about conservation, stewardship, and our relationship with nature.

Led by Diana Newby, FOPOS volunteer and faculty member in Princeton University's Writing Program, we'll spend our inaugural meeting discussing Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. A beautiful meditation on how to care for and learn from plants as our fellow living beings, Braiding Sweetgrass presents ways of thinking that are perhaps even more crucial today than when the book was published in 2013. As Kimmerer's readers, we will take up her invitation to sit with stories that can be "medicine for our broken relationship with earth." Whether this is your first time or your tenth time encountering Braiding Sweetgrass, our conversation will offer something for everyone.

We will spend our first hour discussing the book, sharing impressions, reflections, and points of connection to the mission of FOPOS as well as our personal relationships with plants. In the last half hour, we will extend the motif of "braiding sweetgrass" in a hands-on way by weaving invasive plants foraged by FOPOS volunteers.

About FOPOS: Founded in 1969, FOPOS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to acquiring open space in Princeton for preservation, protecting natural resources, maintaining accessibility to trails, and providing environmental education. As part of our mission, we work with groups in the Princeton region to support efforts to preserve and protect open space and the environment. Since our founding, we’ve helped raise over $6 million to purchase land and conservation easements in Princeton.

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Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS), founded in 1969, is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization devoted to acquiring open space in Princeton for preservation, protecting natural resources, maintaining accessibility to trails, and providing environmental education. Throughout the Princeton region, FOPOS works with groups to support efforts to preserve and protect open space and the environment.

Since its founding, FOPOS has helped to establish over 1,000 acres of parkland and a network of trails that nearly encircles Princeton.  Through grants and the contributions of hundreds of people in the community, FOPOS has helped to raise over $6 million for the purchase of land and acquisition of easements on properties that might have been bulldozed for development.  In addition to land preservation, FOPOS also leads in stewardship, from creating and maintaining hiking trails, boardwalks and footbridges, to the removal of invasive species and the replanting of native varieties.  FOPOS also sponsors community programs and activities, such as nature walks and educational workshops, and advocates for governmental actions that protect our water, land, animals and plant communities. If you have an interest in spending time outdoors, enjoying nature and making a difference in the community, please contact us at info@fopos.org to get involved in trail-building and ecological restoration.

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