Prairie Grown bridges cookbook and memoir with four seasons' worth of recipes from a small South Dakota farm.

Prairie Grown

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Barr, Heidi

Cooking Methods

Avenida Books

Research indicates that spending time in a natural setting provides a plethora of benefits, from lower blood pressure to increased immunity to an enhanced sense of well-being and happiness. People who appreciate nature tend to experience more moments of joy and are more innovative. Being connected to nature helps us be more fully human and better planetary citizens. But the pace of our lives often leaves little room for connecting with nature, and our history of colonization complicates our relationship to the landscapes we inhabit. Collisions of Earth and Skyis an invitation to live in a way that is attuned to nature, paying attention to what's going on inside ourselves and in the larger collective. Guided by wellness coach and poet Heidi Barr, it is a journey of self-inquiry for digging into our origins and roots, figuring out what it means to be a good community member--both to other humans and to our nonhuman neighbors--and integrating those truths and lessons so we can add to the healing of the world. Barr shows us a way to let nature be an ally in living well, offering hopeful inspiration to continue our own path of self-discovery. A collection of reflections, poetry, and invitations to discovery, Collisions of Earth and Sky calls you to celebrate what it is to embrace wildness as an integral part of being fully alive.

Collisions of Earth and Sky: Connecting with Nature for Nourishment, Reflection, and Transformation

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Broadleaf Books

Woodland Manitou: To Be on Earth is a collection of essays rooted in the rhythm of the natural world. Through the turn of the seasons, Heidi Barr illustrates how the cycles of the earth have informed her everyday life from community to vocation to the food that finds its way to the dinner table. Through gardening, simple living, and prioritizing sustainability, Barr paints a picture of how remaining close to the earth provides a solid foundation even as the climate changes and the story of the world shifts. Part stories, part wonderings, and part call to act, this collection of meditations invites reflection, encourages awareness, and inspires action.

Woodland Manitou

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Homebound Publications

Cold Spring Hallelujah explores the experience of being human in a world that often seems broken. Woven together by threads of healing, coming to terms with limitation, and deep reflection on what truly matters, author Heidi Barr issues an invitation to notice the fractured radiance that has the potential to be uncovered in each human life—and to claim the story that finds a foundation in love, of both self and neighbor. Often in dialogue with the reader, she writes, “Claiming your story takes patience and persistence. It takes the sort of self compassion that might, one day, paint the sky with a splendor that can only be found by falling into the fractured radiance that defines what it means to be alive on planet earth. Be brave enough to look through a different lens if you need to, and explore an unfamiliar path. Let the stumbles and the joys and everything in between lead you toward hallelujah. I’ll meet you there.” Cold Spring Hallelujah is a book to keep close on the path into healing.

Cold Spring Hallelujah

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Job loss. It’s not something that most people want to think about, whether it happens to them or not--but in modern society, it’s all too common for the words “lay off” and “company downsize” to grace a conversation about how life is going. Through an honest look at the emotions, feelings, and everyday challenges that can come with losing a job, author Heidi Barr illustrates what going through such an event is like. From disbelief to financial concerns to anxiety over the prospect of a two hour commute after ten years of working from home, this essay explores the uncertainty of not knowing what might be coming next, along with the potential for uncovering the beauty that might just be hidden under what feels like destruction.

What Comes Next

Religion & Spirituality

Slouching Toward Radiance is a collection of nature poetry, meditations, gentle advice, and nudges toward reflection. It's the sort of poetry that anyone can read, even people who don't like poetry— a book that can be picked up and paged through to whatever sections fit for the day or season of life. Heidi Barr's words are worthy companions on the way toward living a life steeped in integrity and compassion for one's fellow beings—from the human down the street to a deer in the forest. It's a walk through a metaphorical day, from dawn to dusk, noticing the holy ordinary even through storms, by way of solitude and community. It's an invitation to start where you are, to find beauty and healing in the everyday stuff of life, and to make the choices that lead to fully living in the ways that work best. 
Part invitation, part musing, part blessing, Slouching Toward Radiance is a call to show up to life in the way that works best for you. You get to decide what to do with the words on the pages. Wherever the words land, and however you decide to respond to them, you may just find it's possible to find renewal in the ordinary dance of living.

Slouching Toward Radiance: A Day in the Life of You, Me and God

Slouching Toward Radiance

Product Description Slouching Toward Radiance is a collection of nature poetry, meditations, gentle advice, and nudges toward reflection. It's the sort of poetry that anyone can read, even people who don't like poetry- a book that can be picked up and paged through to whatever sections fit for the day or season of life. Heidi Barr's words are worthy companions on the way toward living a life steeped in integrity and compassion for one's fellow beings-from the human down the street to a deer in the forest. It's a walk through a metaphorical day, from dawn to dusk, noticing the holy ordinary even through storms, by way of solitude and community. It's an invitation to start where you are, to find beauty and healing in the everyday stuff of life, and to make the choices that lead to fully living in the ways that work best.Part invitation, part musing, part blessing, Slouching Toward Radiance is a call to show up to life in the way that works best for you. You get to decide what to do with the words on the pages. Wherever the words land, and however you decide to respond to them, you may just find it's possible to find renewal in the ordinary dance of living. Review This is a collection of poems and thoughts that call to the Outliers; the ones who stoop low to see the wonder hidden beneath an autumn leaf. I have walked with a reverence through this collection, and I was not left untouched by a single poem. In a voice reminiscent of Mary Oliver, Heidi invites the reader to live their life open to the infinite possibility of beauty finding them everywhere. A book to treasure. -Liezel Graham, author of Stripped and A Counting of LoveIn Slouching Toward Radiance, Barr's presence is felt as an attentive, compassionate mind at work to convey the essence of life. She's taking on the big stuff-happiness, contentment, tension, joy-with poetry punctuated by novel ideas and unexpected, arresting phrases.-Laurie Allmann, author of An Hour From NowHeidi Barr's Slouching Toward Radiance is a poetic exhortation. She nudges readers out of nostalgia and drops us into the present moment so we can exist "one choice, one breath, one [heart]beat / at a time." Grounded in nature, Barr's work exudes an elemental way of knowing and draws wisdom from observation. She eschews exotic flora and fauna found only in small pockets of our planet and turns, instead, to images accessed in the "holy ordinary" rain, stars, seeds, birds. Didactic in purpose, Barr's poems call readers to a "purposeful joy," ask us to do what we "are made to do," and invite us to join her by "walking through words into wonder." Pay attention, Barr says, to shifts in seasons, to snowflakes, to "skin meeting air." Read this lovely collection. We all need her blessing: "May You Always" / Listen to the story / in the cracked coffee mug." -Christine Stewart-Nuñez, 2019/20 Poet Laureate of South Dakota & author of The Poet & The Architect

Wayfarer Books

12 Tiny Things Journal: Rootedness for Life on the Go

Roscher, Ellie

Independently published

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Prairie Grown

Collisions of Earth and Sky: Connecting with Nature for Nourishment, Reflection, and Transformation

Woodland Manitou

Cold Spring Hallelujah

What Comes Next

Cold Spring Hallelujah

Slouching Toward Radiance: A Day in the Life of You, Me and God

Slouching Toward Radiance

Slouching Toward Radiance

12 Tiny Things Journal: Rootedness for Life on the Go