About this Event
Join us for a celebration of perennial foods and their deep roots in western Montana! Bozeman food systems leader Mary Stein will moderate a conversation with Liz Carlisle, Aubrey Streit Krug, and Mariah Gladstone about the new book . Following the conversation, Mariah Gladstone will present a special tasting of perennial appetizers!
Tickets are not required for this event, but RSVPs are appreciated. Please RSVP by reserving a free general admission ticket on this page.
Books can be purchased at the event or ordered in advance on our website or by calling Country Bookshelf at (406) 587-0166 during regular business hours.
The event at a glance:
- On April 15, please arrive early to secure your seat. Seating is general admission, first come, first served.
- At 6:00pm, the program will begin. The presenters will take audience questions following the program.
- After the talk, the authors will sign books and Mariah Gladstone will present a special tasting of perennial appetizers.
- Can't attend in person? Order a signed copy of .on our website or by calling (406) 587-0166. Signing requests will need to be placed 24 hours before the event.
About Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods
Living Roots makes the case for putting perennial foods at the
center of our farms and our plates, to add flavor and nutrients to our diets
while reducing emissions and making our food system more resilient to climate
change and economic uncertainty. With contributions from James Beard
Award-winning chefs, Macarthur Genius grant-winning scientists, and a host of farmers who are leading the way on perennializing agriculture, the book takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of the largest food forest in the United States, the test plots developing the first commercial perennial grains, and the vast grasslands where Indigenous communities are returning bison to their prairie homelands. In the process, each contributor shares their unique story of learning with these long-lived plants about how to root deeper in the face of existential challenges, speaking directly to readers charting their own path on a rapidly changing planet.
Mariah Gladstone, Piikuni (Blackfeet) and Tsalagi (Cherokee), grew up in Northwest Montana on and near the Blackfeet Reservation. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Environmental Engineering and returned home where she began her work on food advocacy. She developed Indigikitchen, an online cooking platform, to revitalize and re-imagine Native foods. She then earned a Master’s degree at SUNY-ESF in the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Mariah has been recognized as a Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow by the First Nations Development Institute, as well as a 2025 Castanea Fellow by the Earth Island Institute. She has shared the importance of reconnecting to traditional foods at events throughout North America and abroad, as well as through appearances on the Today Show, CBC, and numerous podcasts. In addition to all this, Mariah offers a variety of cultural experiences for visitors to the Blackfeet Nation and Glacier National Park. Mariah released her first book, Mountains to Oceans: Kids’ Recipes from Native Land, in January 2025.
Liz Carlisle is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses on food and farming. Born and raised in Montana, she got hooked on agriculture while working as an aide to organic farmer and U.S. Senator Jon Tester, which led to a decade of research and writing collaborations with farmers in her home state. She has written three books about regenerative and organic farming: Lentil Underground, Grain by Grain, and Healing Grounds, and she is coeditor of the new edited
collection Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods. Prior to her career as a writer and academic, she spent several years touring rural America as a country singer.
Aubrey Streit Krug is a writer and researcher who investigates relationships among humans, plants, and places. She is the Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute, where her team leads social and cultural research and educational efforts like civic science that feature learning with communities to help realize more just, diverse, and perennial grain agricultures. Her most recent project, coedited with Liz Carlisle, is the essay collection Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods. Aubrey grew up in rural Kansas, where her parents farm wheat and raise cattle. Her curiosity about grassland stories and plants led her to earn a PhD in English and Great Plains Studies. She loves rocky prairie hillsides and lives in Kansas.
Accessibility Information:
- The event will take place on the first floor of Country Bookshelf.
- All doorways have a width greater than 32 inches with the narrowest being our front door at 35 inches.
- The speakers will be using a microphone at this event.
- Please email [email protected] if you have any specific accessibility needs and we will do our best to serve you!
- Do you or someone you know provide ASL interpretation? Country Bookshelf is seeking an interpreter to call on for future events. Please send information to [email protected] if there is interest!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Country Bookshelf, 28 West Main Street, Bozeman, United States
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