Dear readers,
Happy Spring/Easter/Passover/Ostara to all who celebrate!
We’re closed at the shop today, but we simply had to let you know about our April events! It’s a busy time for us with Earth Day, Independent Bookstore Day, and our shop birthday (we’re turning 4!) all falling at the end of the month. Without further ado, check out our events below, and we’ll be back soon with Earth month book recommendations, jumbled ramblings, and so much more.
All best wishes,
Hailey
We’re so excited to be returning to Reeves-Reed Arboretum’s Daffodil Day Festival again this year! If you haven’t been to the Arboretum yet, you could hardly pick a better day to visit - the grounds will be filled not only with thousands of blooming daffodils, but also with vendors, crafts, games, stories, and the famous goats! We love having a pop-up at the Arboretum, and we’re so excited to add more books to the collection there and highlight our pop-up at the festival. Plus, we have truly the cutest felt daffodil flowers and a number of other fun daffodil goodies to bring! We hope to see you there.
We’re happy to serve as the meeting place for another wonderful event with The Writers Circle! Join award-winning poet Catherine Doty for a nature-centered poetry workshop in honor of National Poetry Month and Earth Month. There will be time to share and workshop early drafts, using the group’s feedback to craft one’s words into even better poems. The event will conclude with a brief open reading to celebrate the group’s creations. Plus, there’s a 10% discount on all purchases made at the shop that night, including on the beautiful nature poetry books Catherine will be highlighting. We hope you can join us!
It’s already time for the next event in our Nature Lovers Speaker Series with the Madison Environmental Commission, and you won’t want to miss this one! Join us at 7pm on April 20th at the Madison Community Arts Center for a discussion with Elise Howard, author of Plant This, Not That. Elise’s book highlights over 200 native plant swaps that you can make in your own garden to better support pollinators, local wildlife, and our planet. Elise will be interviewed by garden designer Sarah Hunt of Sarah Digs Plants. If you’re interested in learning about how to incorporate more native plants into your own yard, this event is a perfect place to start and we truly hope you can join us. The event is free and open to all, we just ask that you register in advance here.
We’re very happy to be participating in an Earth Day story time this year with Mamas Who Walk! On April 22nd, join Stephanie Addyson’s wonderful group of moms who meet to go for a walk and get coffee—two of the best activities! After the walk there will be a story time at James Park with eco-focused books from The Nature of Reading, plus a discount at the shop that day for all moms and families who participate.
This month we’ll be crafting these sweet mini embroidery hoops! With blocks of color already printed on the fabric and only a 4-inch hoop, these whimsical folk animals make great projects for beginners. We’ll learn all the necessary embroidery stitches at the event and get started with the project, then you’ll bring it home to finish up in your own time, ideally with a cup of tea and a vase of flowers nearby. It’s spring crafting time, hooray! Get your ticket now if you know you’d like to join us—you can choose from any of the three animal designs but there are limited numbers of each.
I can’t believe it’s April already and we’re only a few weeks away from our 4th year Earth Day anniversary! As always, we’re doing a big combo celebration on Indie Bookstore Day, which falls on Saturday, April 25th this year. Join us all day at the shop for Earth month treats, a special raffle, new merch, and so much more! We’ll get into all the details in the next newsletter, but mark your calendar now!
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Lastly, we’re so very excited for book club this month: we’re reading When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World by Suzanne Simard. The author of Finding the Mother Tree is back with another stunning book that dives into her critical research into the interconnectedness of forests and their cycles of regeneration, moving between details of her own life growing up in a family of loggers to the time she has spent with local Indigenous communities learning how to best steward a forest. With her evocative yet approachable writing style and concise distillation of her scientific research, this powerful book is one you won’t want to miss. You can get your ticket for book club now at this link.
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