Author Talk with M. Kat Anderson
A Special Morning at Calaveras Big Trees
Join Us for an Author Talk with M. Kat Anderson
The Calaveras Big Trees Association is delighted to welcome ethnobotanist and author M. Kat Anderson for a morning of inspiration and discovery.
What does it mean to truly belong to a landscape, to listen to it, and let it sing back? In her new book, I Sing to the Earth and She Sings Back, ethnobotanist M. Kat Anderson invites us into a more intimate, embodied relationship with the natural world, one grounded in presence, reciprocity, and a reawakening of ancestral ways of knowing.
Building on the foundation of her landmark book Tending the Wild, which transformed how we understand Indigenous stewardship of California’s landscapes, Anderson draws from decades of collaboration with Native elders and a lifetime of personal experience as an ecologist and seeker. She weaves storytelling, cultural insight, and practical guidance into ten lyrical chapters that speak powerfully to our moment of ecological reckoning and spiritual disconnection, offering a grounded and hopeful path to reconnection — one that honors Indigenous wisdom without appropriating it.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Kat speak, ask questions, and connect with others who share a love for the living world.
I Sing to the Earth and She Sings Back and Tending the Wild are available at the Big Trees Visitor Center. For more information on these books, visit M. Kat Anderson’s website.
About the Author
M. Kat Anderson is an ethnobotanist whose thirty-year collaboration with California’s Indigenous elders and traditional knowledge holders has shaped how scientists and land stewards understand the natural world. Author of the landmark Tending the Wild and the newly released I Sing to the Earth, and She Sings Back (2026), her work is a lifelong devotion to restoring our relationship with the land. Learn more at tendingthewild.com.
