April 15, 2026 – A Talk with M. Kat Anderson: Author, Ethnoecologist, Gatherer
Wednesday, April 15, 3 p.m.
Location: Sierra College, Sewell Hall, Room 101
NOTE: This event is sold out! Our venue is full to capacity! Thanks to all for your support of our doing such events!
The local Redbud Chapter of the California Native Plant Society is honored to host Dr. M. Kat Anderson, author of Tending the Wild and her newest work from this year, I Sing to the Earth, and She Sings Back on April 15 at 3 p.m. at Sierra College, Sewell Hall, Room 101.
Kat is currently focusing on restoring human relationships to the earth and its living things. This entails honoring and reviving the gathering and tending practices, ethical stances, and ways of being of pre-industrial cultures from around the world. As the author of Tending the Wild, she highlights indigenous stewardship practices essential for biodiversity, climate resilience, and cultural restoration.
Her latest work, I Sing to the Earth and She Sings Back, explores how we can reimagine time, embrace reciprocity, and cultivate deep, healing relationships with the natural world through essays that examine the cyclical rhythms of life, the intelligence of other beings, and the wisdom of holistic perception.
Location and Registration
This program, sponsored by California Native Plant Society’s local Redbud Chapter, will be Wednesday, April 15, at 3 p.m. at Sierra College’s Sewell Hall, Room 101. Sewell Hall is also the location of the Sierra College Natural History Museum.
This event is open to the public. Please visit Eventbrite to reserve your spot.
About Kat Anderson
M. Kat Anderson is an ethnoecologist, writer, gardener, and gatherer dedicated to restoring relationships between people and native ecosystems. With a Ph.D. in Wildland Resource Science from UC Berkeley, she has spent over 25 years learning from Native American communities, integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with Western science.
Kat lives in Redbud House, in Davis, California, where she is bringing wildness back to her garden and tending the plants native to the Central Valley and her other motherlands.
I am so excited and interested in haring Thea’s talk. I work and so the earliest I could be at the event is 5:00. What time will she be speaking?
Hi Roberta!
We anticipate Thea’s talk being from about 4:40 to 5:30. Of course, in real life, timing may wind up being a bit different. Hope you can come!
Chrissy, for Redbud Chapter CNPS