7 artist publishers reflect on their experiences of waste in the making of their books. They describe problems they faced in the past and are working to avoid in the future, lessons learned, changes they are making or have made to make their work less wasteful, interesting things they do with waste materials, and tips or tricks to have a less ecologically damaging publishing practice.

This essay was originally published in 1984 as the last recipe in a Bloodroot Collective feminist vegetarian cookbook (see Our daily lives have to be a satisfaction in themselves which includes this essay as a chapter). This new version is completely redesigned as a ritual object to be given to a friend in mourning. Hand-sewn, and illustrated with New England gravestone rubbings, the uncut pages are intended to be cut by the recipient as they read the book. Emily Larned's Alder & Frankia Efemmera Reissue series amplifies, graphically reinterprets, and recirculates historic feminist ephemera. Each issue is different in form. What ideas, strategies, and tactics from the past can we borrow to bring forth a feminist future? A Witch Recipe for Grievers is Efemmera Reissue #5.

A small book not on how to sew books, but rather about the observations, thoughts, and feelings that arise in the process of this patient and meditative labor. A reflective essay written while binding a large hand-sewn edition of the Alder & Frankia book Our daily lives have to be a satisfaction in themselves. An earlier version of this essay was published on the CBAA Book Art Theory Blog.