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This is Leslie VonHolten in Kansas with another HPPR Radio Readers BookByte.Robin Wall Kimmerer’s writing is a gift. Throughout her book, Braiding Sweetgrass, her prose gracefully, and comfortably, connects the many strands of her perspective: from her work as a biologist to her worldview formed by her Indigenous heritage, her overall love and affection for the natural world resonates throughout her book.

Hello! I’m Cheryl Dunn in Lincoln, NE for HPPR’s Radio Readers Fall Book Club. I’m the Research Manager-Herbarium Curator at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and I have the pleasure of being your Leader for the book Braiding Sweetgrass which the author Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves a beautiful story of connecting with the land and giving back to it what you take from it, also known as reciprocity.

Theo Byrne, an astrobiologist, thought searching the cosmos might be his biggest challenge, but single-handedly raising his special nine-year-old son Robin after the death of his mother, Theo’s wife, turns out to be a much more meaningful task.

Hello, Radio Readers; this is Kim Perez, and I am coming to you from Hays with a few thoughts about the book Bewilderment by Richard Powers for the fall 2023 Radio Readers Book Club.

Hello! My name is Cheryl Dunn in Lincoln, Nebraska, for HPPR’s Radio Readers Fall Book Club.Our first book is the nonfiction Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer which is an intriguing book that braids together indigenous traditions (specifically Potawatomi heritage), science, and really delves into the author’s botany profession.

Your garden can help to upgrade your yard, and your life, in a number of ways. Landscaping can be expensive, but there are ways to get more for your money, and dividing perennials that begin to grow into each other will help keep them from becoming too dense and lose sunlight and growth vigor, while also giving you additional plants to cover more of your garden!

This week, Luke visits with his longtime friend Larry Weishuhn aka "Mr. Whitetail" and discuss an evening spotlight whitetail survey Larry recently conducted on their friends, Edgar Cotton and David Cotton's ranch in Kaufman County Texas. Larry gives some information that will help anyone get a good idea of the deer density on their property.

Hello. My name is Cheryl Berzanskis and I’m from Amarillo.When I woke up this morning, I saw and enjoyed what almost eight billion other people had seen or would see today — a sunrise.The sun’s daily journey is a universality of life on Earth and at each end of the great orb’s arc across the sky we have symbols to attend it.