Flower Essences: Inspiring Plant Conservation
By Katherine Ziff Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world – John Muir Where I grow plant spirits may safely play …
Wildcrafting in a Warming World: Towards Regenerative Practices for Life in the Anthropocene
by Scott Kloos It’s a clear, somewhat chilly September morning in the high desert mountains of southeastern Oregon. I am here with a small group …
Sacred Threads
by Paul Corbit Brown Imagine visiting a museum of art. Now imagine the curator invites you to peer through a microscope to examine the intricacies …
Why Don’t We Stop and Smell the Roses?
Have you ever heard the expression, “Stop and smell the roses?” Do you know that sensation when the fragrance hits your nostrils and suddenly everything …
It’s All About Technique: In Vitro Methods for Storing Medicinal Plant Germplasm
By Rustin A. Rohani, MA, BSc Despite the arrival of pharmaceutical drugs, humans have historically used plants to treat illnesses (Ganie et al., 2015). Even …
Death of the Delta
The Threat of Climate Change, Drought, and Hydropower Dams on the Mekong River’s Traditional Medicinal Plants and HealersAdd New by Dr. Michele Devlin The Mekong …
Ginseng and the Fate of the Commons: A Lesson From History
by Luke Manget, PhD By the turn of the twentieth century, the imminent extinction of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) was one of the common topics of …
Medicinal Plants Used In Traditional Herbal Medicine In The Fifa Village/southern Jordan
by Abdullah Aloshoush Abstract This study was conducted to identify the uses of plant species in traditional medicine in the Fifa village and to collect …
A Story of Medicinal Plants From the Ogiek of Kenya
By Fidensio Kinyamu Ndegwa In the Rift valley of Kenya, near Nakuru town is Mau forest. Mau forest is an important water tower, a source …
