Submitted by the Orcas Island Garden Club.

The Orcas Island Garden Club and the Orcas Island Library present “Living Rooted — in Nature and the Garden!” by Lyanda Lynn Haupt. Darvill’s Bookstore will have Lyanda’s books available at the presentation.

Please join the Orcas Island Garden Club and Orcas Island Library on Wednesday, March 20 when we welcome Lyanda Lynn Haupt, naturalist and author of many books to speak to us about the cutting-edge science that is rising in support of a truth that poets, artists, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed for millennia: All life on this planet is radically interconnected. In our everyday lives, there are myriad ways to explore and deepen our own sense of “rootedness” — living in concert with the wild natural world in ways that sustain both ourselves as individuals and the whole of the earth.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is an award-winning author, naturalist, eco-philosopher, and speaker whose work explores the beautiful, complicated connections between humans and the wild, natural world. Her newest book is Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Little, Brown Spark 2021).

Lyanda’s writing is acclaimed for combining scientific knowledge with literary, poetic prose. Her previous books include: Mozart’s Starling, The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks, and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds. She is a winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Nautilus Book Award, a finalist for the Orion Book Award, and a two-time winner of the Washington State Book Award.

Lyanda has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont, and as a seabird researcher for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. Her essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including Orion, Discover, Utne, LA Times, Times Literary Supplement, Image, Huffington Post, Wild Earth, and Conservation Biology Journal. She lives in the mossy green woodlands of Bellingham, Washington.

The live presentation will begin at 10 am at the Orcas Center and will be followed by social time. The presentation will also be available via zoom. For a link to the live zoom presentation go to the Orcas Island Garden Club website and click the link below the list of presentations. The presentation will be recorded and available for one week after it is posted. To watch the recorded presentation, go to the link “recorded presentations” under resources on the club website. Garden club presentations are free and open to the public.

For more information here is a link to Lyanda’s website: http://www.lyandalynnhaupt.com/