SCGC Winter Wonder Book Club Session 1: The Serviceberry

SCGC Winter Wonder Book Club

Join us online for the first session of the SCGC Winter Wonder Book Club! It's a relaxed, fun way to chat about great reads and share your thoughts. Don't miss out on this chance to connect and explore some fantastic stories from the comfort of your home as part of the Somerville Community Growing Center (SCGC) 25/26 Winter Programming.

Session 1: The Serviceberry

For the first session, on January 29th, we will talk about The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer. In Serviceberry, Kimmerer invites us to learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most. Kimmerer writes about the economy of reciprocity, based on the natural cycle of the serviceberry, that emphasizes the value of the quality of our relationships to determine wealth and security.

Book Club Materials

• A copy of The Serviceberry, available through Somerville Public Library, either by request or limited copies will be available to be picked up from the library after 1/1/2026, or it can be purchased from Porter Sq Books or Narrative Bookshop
• Essay excerpt of The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance, from Emergence Magazine: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/

More details about the content and discussion questions will be released soon.

We hope you will join us for this session of Winter Wonder Book Club!