Beronda L. Montgomery
@berondam.bsky.social
Living my purpose
Writer:
Books #LessonsFromPlants (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674241282) & #WhenTreesTestify (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250335166/whentreestestify/)
Professor
#Leadership|#Mentoring|#EquityReadingList/#DEIReadingList
Writer:
Books #LessonsFromPlants (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674241282) & #WhenTreesTestify (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250335166/whentreestestify/)
Professor
#Leadership|#Mentoring|#EquityReadingList/#DEIReadingList
Pinned
Cover of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy"!!! published by @henryholtbooks.bsky.social.
I can't tell you all adequately how proud of & eager I am to share this with the world!!!
Coming January 20, 2026
Pre-order NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/when...
I can't tell you all adequately how proud of & eager I am to share this with the world!!!
Coming January 20, 2026
Pre-order NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/when...
It's time for @libraryofamerica.bsky.social's "The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler", a conversation with @imaniperry.bsky.social & @tananarivedue.bsky.social!!!
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It's time for @libraryofamerica.bsky.social's "The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler", a conversation with @imaniperry.bsky.social & @tananarivedue.bsky.social!!!
When Trees Testify
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
January 20, 2026
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
#FallOfFreedom #ARRoundUp
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
January 20, 2026
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
#FallOfFreedom #ARRoundUp
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
When Trees Testify
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
January 20, 2026
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
#FallOfFreedom #ARRoundUp
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
January 20, 2026
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
#FallOfFreedom #ARRoundUp
Reposted by Beronda L. Montgomery
All the ways the next generation gives me a lot of hope. A thread/
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This week’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Beronda L. Montgomery’s WHEN TREES TESTIFY, a reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery that offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees. 👉 tinyurl.com/yu5ekrjk
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reposted by Beronda L. Montgomery
Book recommendation for 2026: WHEN TREES TESTIFY by Beronda Montgomery coming January 20th 2026.
“Trees hold the transformed breath of decades of human life... and testify to history and those of their past”
I quick thread 🧵 reviewing this book!
#booksky #womeninscience #botany🌱 #BlackHistory
“Trees hold the transformed breath of decades of human life... and testify to history and those of their past”
I quick thread 🧵 reviewing this book!
#booksky #womeninscience #botany🌱 #BlackHistory
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Book recommendation for 2026: WHEN TREES TESTIFY by Beronda Montgomery coming January 20th 2026.
“Trees hold the transformed breath of decades of human life... and testify to history and those of their past”
I quick thread 🧵 reviewing this book!
#booksky #womeninscience #botany🌱 #BlackHistory
“Trees hold the transformed breath of decades of human life... and testify to history and those of their past”
I quick thread 🧵 reviewing this book!
#booksky #womeninscience #botany🌱 #BlackHistory
I've long admired @ruha9.bsky.social's work, activism & "life model." When we met & I served as discussant for her last year, I felt a connectedness that has grown. It was a gift beyond measure for her provide comment for "When Trees Testify" (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social / @macmillanusa.bsky.social)
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I've long admired @ruha9.bsky.social's work, activism & "life model." When we met & I served as discussant for her last year, I felt a connectedness that has grown. It was a gift beyond measure for her provide comment for "When Trees Testify" (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social / @macmillanusa.bsky.social)
Love this AND love libraries!!
#WhenTreesTestify
#WhenTreesTestify
It came available for me to place dibs on today in my library's Libby system! Something to look forward to in January.
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Love this AND love libraries!!
#WhenTreesTestify
#WhenTreesTestify
THE @imaniperry.bsky.social on When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social):
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
THE @imaniperry.bsky.social on When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social):
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...
Reposted by Beronda L. Montgomery
Here's a link for orders and with more info: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
When Trees Testify
This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stor...
us.macmillan.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Here's a link for orders and with more info: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Reposted by Beronda L. Montgomery
To be published in January 2026. @berondam.bsky.social's new book is absolutely wonderful and you should do yourself a favor and pre-order now!
Thanks @dghaskell.bsky.social re: When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social)
"Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the convergences of human & plant lives. Full of joy, sorrow & brilliant insight, this book forever changed how I think about trees & American ecology & history."
"Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the convergences of human & plant lives. Full of joy, sorrow & brilliant insight, this book forever changed how I think about trees & American ecology & history."
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
To be published in January 2026. @berondam.bsky.social's new book is absolutely wonderful and you should do yourself a favor and pre-order now!
Thanks @dghaskell.bsky.social re: When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social)
"Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the convergences of human & plant lives. Full of joy, sorrow & brilliant insight, this book forever changed how I think about trees & American ecology & history."
"Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the convergences of human & plant lives. Full of joy, sorrow & brilliant insight, this book forever changed how I think about trees & American ecology & history."
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thanks @dghaskell.bsky.social re: When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social)
"Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the convergences of human & plant lives. Full of joy, sorrow & brilliant insight, this book forever changed how I think about trees & American ecology & history."
"Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the convergences of human & plant lives. Full of joy, sorrow & brilliant insight, this book forever changed how I think about trees & American ecology & history."
Reposted by Beronda L. Montgomery
🌿 I love this book! WHEN TREES TESTIFY: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy by @berondam.bsky.social. I was honored to receive a galley, read it slowly, savoring it under the trees. Coming January 20th, it's available for pre-order here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🌿 I love this book! WHEN TREES TESTIFY: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy by @berondam.bsky.social. I was honored to receive a galley, read it slowly, savoring it under the trees. Coming January 20th, it's available for pre-order here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
From @katieholten.bsky.social, "The Language of Trees"
"Trees invite us into the entangled lives, loves & freedom struggles of those who came before us & those who will come after us. I learned things about trees & people that made me laugh, cry & gasp in wonder. I wish everyone could read it."
"Trees invite us into the entangled lives, loves & freedom struggles of those who came before us & those who will come after us. I learned things about trees & people that made me laugh, cry & gasp in wonder. I wish everyone could read it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
From @katieholten.bsky.social, "The Language of Trees"
"Trees invite us into the entangled lives, loves & freedom struggles of those who came before us & those who will come after us. I learned things about trees & people that made me laugh, cry & gasp in wonder. I wish everyone could read it."
"Trees invite us into the entangled lives, loves & freedom struggles of those who came before us & those who will come after us. I learned things about trees & people that made me laugh, cry & gasp in wonder. I wish everyone could read it."
Amazing & inspiring conversation between author @aravensgrace.bsky.social on her new book "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival" with @kiese.bsky.social. About mushrooms/fungi, Blackness & SO much more.
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Amazing & inspiring conversation between author @aravensgrace.bsky.social on her new book "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival" with @kiese.bsky.social. About mushrooms/fungi, Blackness & SO much more.
Words from Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction on "When Trees Testify":
"Beronda L. Montgomery draws on the experience of Black American...growing up in Arkansas, and her expertise as a plant scientist to....A fascinating, informative, and deeply moving book."
"Beronda L. Montgomery draws on the experience of Black American...growing up in Arkansas, and her expertise as a plant scientist to....A fascinating, informative, and deeply moving book."
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Words from Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction on "When Trees Testify":
"Beronda L. Montgomery draws on the experience of Black American...growing up in Arkansas, and her expertise as a plant scientist to....A fascinating, informative, and deeply moving book."
"Beronda L. Montgomery draws on the experience of Black American...growing up in Arkansas, and her expertise as a plant scientist to....A fascinating, informative, and deeply moving book."
Grateful for @koshersoul.bsky.social's words about #WhenTreesTestify:
"We have been waiting for this. A botanical memoir, a history, a history with a Black lens-that takes us from roots to branches...an electric, bold weaving of ethnobotany, personal memoir, spirit and science and I am here for it"
"We have been waiting for this. A botanical memoir, a history, a history with a Black lens-that takes us from roots to branches...an electric, bold weaving of ethnobotany, personal memoir, spirit and science and I am here for it"
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Grateful for @koshersoul.bsky.social's words about #WhenTreesTestify:
"We have been waiting for this. A botanical memoir, a history, a history with a Black lens-that takes us from roots to branches...an electric, bold weaving of ethnobotany, personal memoir, spirit and science and I am here for it"
"We have been waiting for this. A botanical memoir, a history, a history with a Black lens-that takes us from roots to branches...an electric, bold weaving of ethnobotany, personal memoir, spirit and science and I am here for it"
~2 months until debut of my next book, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, & America’s Black Botanical Legacy" from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social & the blurbs have me overflowing with gratitude & joy. I'm sharing them this week starting this afternoon.
#WhenTreesTestify coming Jan 20, 2026!
#WhenTreesTestify coming Jan 20, 2026!
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
~2 months until debut of my next book, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, & America’s Black Botanical Legacy" from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social & the blurbs have me overflowing with gratitude & joy. I'm sharing them this week starting this afternoon.
#WhenTreesTestify coming Jan 20, 2026!
#WhenTreesTestify coming Jan 20, 2026!
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Enter to win a copy of #WhenTreesTestify!!
"How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, shared through the stories of long-lived trees."
Enter to win a copy of @berondam.bsky.social's "When Trees Testify" from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
Enter to win a copy of @berondam.bsky.social's "When Trees Testify" from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Enter to win a copy of #WhenTreesTestify!!
Reposted by Beronda L. Montgomery
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
When Trees Testify coming from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social Jan. 20, 2026 sitting pretty with other forthcoming books & reviewed in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
When Trees Testify coming from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social Jan. 20, 2026 sitting pretty with other forthcoming books & reviewed in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
In discussion of her new book "Peril & Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times" Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum/BDT with Dr Ruth J. Simmons/RJS, former Univ./College Presidents discuss current challenges, opportunities & morals/ethics in higher ed leadership. Host @umich.edu & @umichncid.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
In discussion of her new book "Peril & Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times" Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum/BDT with Dr Ruth J. Simmons/RJS, former Univ./College Presidents discuss current challenges, opportunities & morals/ethics in higher ed leadership. Host @umich.edu & @umichncid.bsky.social
I met this beautiful cotton tree on Oct 21 in Falmouth, Jamaica days before we had any idea Hurricane Melissa would come. I stood with it with my Falmouth family remarking on what it had seen & memories it carries with no idea of what it and we would experience in the days to come.
#jamaicaonelove🇯🇲❤️
#jamaicaonelove🇯🇲❤️
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I met this beautiful cotton tree on Oct 21 in Falmouth, Jamaica days before we had any idea Hurricane Melissa would come. I stood with it with my Falmouth family remarking on what it had seen & memories it carries with no idea of what it and we would experience in the days to come.
#jamaicaonelove🇯🇲❤️
#jamaicaonelove🇯🇲❤️
Educators and Librarians:
Thursday Oct. 23rd join @libraryjournal.bsky.social's Day of Dialog for a great program! I'll participate in the panel (1:00-1:50 PM ET) Hidden Legacies: Unearthing Black Histories" with Clyde W. Ford, Wil Haygood, @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social
Moderator: Grace D. Gipson
Thursday Oct. 23rd join @libraryjournal.bsky.social's Day of Dialog for a great program! I'll participate in the panel (1:00-1:50 PM ET) Hidden Legacies: Unearthing Black Histories" with Clyde W. Ford, Wil Haygood, @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social
Moderator: Grace D. Gipson
October 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Educators and Librarians:
Thursday Oct. 23rd join @libraryjournal.bsky.social's Day of Dialog for a great program! I'll participate in the panel (1:00-1:50 PM ET) Hidden Legacies: Unearthing Black Histories" with Clyde W. Ford, Wil Haygood, @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social
Moderator: Grace D. Gipson
Thursday Oct. 23rd join @libraryjournal.bsky.social's Day of Dialog for a great program! I'll participate in the panel (1:00-1:50 PM ET) Hidden Legacies: Unearthing Black Histories" with Clyde W. Ford, Wil Haygood, @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social
Moderator: Grace D. Gipson
