Robin Wall Kimmerer: What Does the Earth Ask of You Today?

The Sounds True Podcast Network A commodity is really just a thing, it's an object, but when we move to the notion that the the food that we eat, the air that we breathe, that wonderful drink of cold water, um, is a gift from Shgokmikwe, from Mother Earth. It's a relationship and a reciprocal relationship. Hello friends, in this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Robin Wall Kimmerer. Robin is a scientist and a brilliant writer, best known as the author of the widely acclaimed book Grading Sweetgrass, Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teaching of plants.

She's a mother, a decorated professor, an enrolled member of the citizen Potawatami Nation. She's a tremendously gifted storyteller and educator who is currently 72 years old, and living in a farmhouse in upstate New York, writing, speaking, teaching, and tending gardens, both cultivated and wild. In 2025, she launched a new movement. It's called Plant Baby.

plant, a way for individuals to be involved in loving the natural world around us, and we're going to talk about that. Friends, stay with us. It was about a decade ago when I first heard this teaching from the famous management philosopher, Peter Drucker. The most important thing for an executive to learn is not how to manage other people.

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