Hailing from the northeastern state of Meghalaya in India, the Khasi community is renowned for having developed a unique technology of weaving living architecture by braiding tree roots of the Ficus elastica, commonly known as the rubber tree, into architectural structures such as bridges, platforms, and stairs. The nature of the landscape breathes the Khasi’s culture into being. They exist in kinship and communion with the living beings with whom they share the land. They act as co-designers with the environment’s constitutive species, and their practices offer us alternative ways to think of dwelling. This is work undertaken with Morningstar Khongthow, founder of the Living Bridge Foundation. Now, a root bridge can take anywhere from 10-40 years to build and become structurally stable. Advances in synthetic biology and genetic modification may be one way to bridge the gap in shorter time spans, and this is a motivation to seek collaboration between scientists and indigenous practitioners. At the threshold where cultural practice meets scientific inquiry, my research attends to Indigenous modes of making as propositions for radically different economies of production, consumption, and relation, pathways that emerge when we learn to read the syntax of nature with care and reciprocity.