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SUMMARY:Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of perennial foods and their deep 
 roots! We'll gather at Newton Public Library to enjoy perennial treats\, a 
 prairie poetry reading\, and conversation with writers Jesse Nathan and 
 Aubrey Streit Krug about the new book Living Roots: The Promise of 
 Perennial Foods. Visual artist and Bethel College professor Rachel Epp 
 Buller will moderate the conversation.\n\nLiving Roots: The Promise of 
 Perennial Foods incorporates perspectives from experts across numerous 
 backgrounds and lived experiences to examine the promise of perennial foods 
 such as perennial grains\, Indigenous food forests\, fruit trees\, nuts\, 
 berries\, and more for sustaining communities and protecting the health of 
 our shared planet. Faith & Life Bookstore will be on hand to sell copies of 
 the book\, as well as Nathan's debut poetry collection\, Eggtooth.\n\nThis 
 is a hybrid program: Attend in person at Newton Public Library\, 223 E. 
 7th\, or click here to sign up for the Zoom Webinar simulcast.\n\nAbout Our 
 Guests:\n\nAubrey Streit Krug is a writer and researcher who investigates 
 relationships among humans\, plants\, and places. She is the Director of 
 the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute\, where her team leads 
 social and cultural research and educational efforts like civic science 
 that feature learning with communities to help realize more just\, 
 diverse\, and perennial grain agricultures. Her most recent project\, 
 co-edited with Liz Carlisle\, is the essay collection Living Roots: The 
 Promise of Perennial Foods. Aubrey grew up in rural Kansas\, and her 
 curiosity about grassland stories and plants led her to earn a PhD in 
 English and Great Plains Studies. She loves rocky prairie hillsides and 
 lives in Kansas.\n\nJesse Nathan's debut collection of poems\, Eggtooth\, 
 won the Kansas Book Award and the New Writers Award. His poems appear in 
 the Paris Review\, the New Republic\, the New Territory\, and the I-70 
 Review. He was a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at Bread Loaf Writers' 
 Conference in Vermont. Nathan grew up in northern California\, and on a 
 wheat farm in McPherson County. He's a graduate of Bethel College\, and he 
 teaches literature in the English Department at UC Berkeley.\n\nRachel Epp 
 Buller (MFA\, PhD) is a visual and sound artist\, feminist art historian\, 
 educator\, and mother of three. She has exhibited her artwork in solo and 
 group exhibitions in the US\, UK\, Canada\, the Netherlands\, Germany\, and 
 Italy. She is a two-time Fulbright Scholar\, board member of the national 
 Women’s Caucus for Art\, certified practitioner in Deep Listening\, and 
 Professor of Visual Arts and Design at Bethel College.\n\nJoin Meeting: 
 https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tWQmW81MSpC1I8e247V2Rw
LOCATION:Intrust Room
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