Find the practice.
See it in the book.

“Isn’t this an economy? A system of distribution of goods and services that meets the needs of the community. The currency of this economic system is energy, which flows through it, and materials, which cycle among the producers and the consumers. It is a system for redistribution of wealth, an exchange of goods and services.”

“as the pail gets heavier…”

Later, the narrator again places the bucket in her hand and berry juice on her fingers. The essay now asks why scarcity organizes human economics and follows that question into cooperation, competition and the limits of abundance.

“it’s also good marketing.”

Kimmerer moves from giving a book to a friend, to a Little Free Library, to a public library. At civic scale, she names taxes as a reason the institution is not exactly a gift economy; the following farm-stand theft raises the problem of trust when a shared resource is misused.