Chaga and Birch: A Meditation on Relationship
By Vanessa Chakour Early in 2020, I began a retreat into my own creative cocoon to work on my upcoming book, Awakening Artemis. I unplugged, …
Herbalism Survival in Refugee Familes
By Rachel Thomas In homes all around the world, traditional plant wisdom is still respected and used every day. From the plants on their plates …
Abenaki Medicinal Plants
by Marjorie Veilleux The Ndakinna, or ancestral territory of the W8ban Aki First Nation (also spelled Abenaki) encompasses New England up to the St. Lawrence …
Neem: Azadirachta Indica a. Juss – The Tree of the 21st Century
By Klaus Ferlow, HMH, HA Human ingenuity has created wondrous developments from fires to evolving an extraordinary complex social structure, splitting atoms, reaching for the …
Cottonwood Forest Communiqué
By Dara Saville Forests communicate in myriad ways—through root connectivity, chemical signaling, or networks of mycelium. They also communicate with people through the examples they …
Restoring the Midwest Oak Savanna Ecosystem
Utilizing sustainable forest herb farming to save a disappearing Iowa biome By Wendy M. Welder Abstract The Midwest oak savanna is a rare ecosystem disappearing …
The Sun, Flutes, and Angelica
By Abrah Arneson Let the beauty we love be what we do. – Rumi The sun’s warmth is generous. It is full of hope. The …
Distinguishing Black Cohosh from Look-Alikes
by Karen Johnson Heeter 1, Laura Price 2, and Sunshine Brosi, PhD 3,1 Graduate Student, 2 Undergraduate Student, 3 Associate ProfessorEthnobotany Program, Frostburg State University, …
Quassia amara; strong man of the tropical forest
by Susan Leopold, PhD Enjoy reading the foreword to the newly published and updated English version. Contact United Plant Savers if you wish to …
