– Ken McCarthy
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Author Archives: Ken
Peter Webster – Psychoactive Plants and Human Evolution
Psychoactive plants have been omnipresent during all the stages of hominid evolution – but is there any evidence that they may have had an important influence or been the evolutionary catalyst for the emergence of modern humans?
Mythological tales of a “forbidden fruit” acting to awaken humankind from their “natural” or protohuman state are not uncommon, but some recent findings of science now seem to give new meaning to such … Read more
Herb walk with Rosita Arvigo in Chicago
Site of Herb Walk in Chicago on Milwaukee and Kedzie Avenues in Logan Square
Amaranth — Amaranthus retroflexus — Ancient food of the Americas; very high mineral and protein content. Excellent for anemia
Sheep Sorrel — Rumex acetosella — Good food for salads, kidney aid
Milkweed — Asclepias syriaca — white milky sap for warts, edible flowers and very young pods
Prairie Dock — Silphium terebinthinaceum — decorative prairie plant… Read more
PlantWisdom.org interview Dr. Rosita Arvigo
The tree that grows 40 fruits
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Jamaican herbs
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Unfolding crowns
Photograph by Alyssa Locke. Photo editing by Alyssa Locke and Ken McCarthy.
– Ken McCarthy
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Mullein Flowers
Photograph by Alyssa Locke. Photo editing by Alyssa Locke and Ken McCarthy.
– Ken McCarthy
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Ancient Trees Portraits of Time
This dragon blood tree can live up to five hundred years (Beth Moon/Abbeville Press)
Yews of Wakehurst taken in Ardingly, West Sussex, England in 1999: Its tentacle-like roots ride over the cliff’s edge to find soil to sink into and its drooping branches filter out daylight, according to Moon, giving the woods an eerie ambience.(Beth Moon/Abbeville Press)
Rilke’s Bayon taken in Ta Prohm, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia in 2007: Of … Read more
Maya-Ethnobotany.org
Dr. Nicholas M. Hellmuth operates an ambitious web site on the enthobotany of the Mayan world based in Guatemala with special focus on photography.
http://www.maya-ethnobotany.org
– Ken McCarthy
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