The Seed Keeper: A Novel botany Cherokee artist and language technologist

Cherokee artist and language technologist Jeff Edwards delivers haunting illustrations that incorporate Cherokee syllabary

and nectar-feeding bats in the Pteropodidae family

Photos by Deniz Wilson

and even an imagined tapestry

The month-by-month format makes it perfect for beginners and accessible to everyone—gardeners can start gardening the month they pick it up

The Seed Keeper: A Novel botany Cherokee artist and language technologistA haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhta familys struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesnt return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is