Do you love to read?  We do.  Join us for an open-house style book club every other month throughout the year to share in conversation and community.   All are welcome.  Held at the MSUM Regional Science Center near Buffalo River State Park.   1pm - 4pm

• September 19 2026

• November 21 2026

• January 16 2027

• March 20 2027

• May 15 2027

• July 17 2027

• September 18 2027

• November 20 2027

Here are some of our MN Naturalist favorites: 

• An Immense World: How Animal Senses REveal the Hidden Realms by Ed Yong

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie by Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty

• Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic by Natalie Warren 

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake 

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

• The Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu's Book of the Way and of Righteousness

• The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram  

• The Lorax by Dr Suess