If you want your copy of Bad Naturalist signed, you’ll have to pick up the day of or after the program on Thursday, January 29.

Bad Naturalist by Paula Whyman is a memoir about her experience restoring a 200-acre former pasture in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, detailing her humorous and humbling journey learning hands-on conservation, battling invasive species, and questioning traditional ideas of nature while forming a deep connection with the land.