Tusha Yakovleva’s work revolves around growing reciprocal relationships between land and people and has included ethnobotanical teaching and writing; working with food sovereignty and biocultural land justice organizations; directing a wild foods share program; keeping seeds; growing perennials. Tusha’s heart’s home is under a paper birch, next to a wild strawberry, in the damp down of sphagnum, the air sticky with chanterelles; her botanical knowledge is rooted in rural and urban soils within northern temperate forests across two continents. The foundation of Tusha’s life-long plant tending practice comes from her family and first home - the Volga River watershed in Russia - where learning from uncultivated plants is common practice. Tusha is the author of a resource guide for weedy edible plants found in cultivated soils of the Northeast and works at the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment in Onondaga Nation homelands.