In the previous post, we introduced Richard Evans Schultes though a short video and excerpts of an interview conducted with him later in his life.
In this video, his student and protege Wade Davis goes much deeper into Schultes’ story.
Absolutely fascinating and excellent preparation for seeing the new movie “Abrazo de la Serpiente” (Embrace of the Serpent) – which I’ve now seen three times.
If this account of Schultes’s … Read more
Baba Rahsan Abdul Hakim
Baba Rahsan Abdul Hakim grew up in Jamaica where his training in plants began when he was a small child at the hands of his grandmother, aunt and mother.
His grandfather, Charles Williams, was an important horticulturist and agriculturist who introduced a number of useful plants to Jamaica. He was the uncredited developer of the Hope Garden, the largest botanical garden in the Caribbean.
As an … Read more
It took decades for corporate-owned science to discover that things like tobacco and processed meats are deadly.
But GMOs were given a clean bill of health with next-to-no testing and certainly no multi-year tests on humans.
Here’s what Big Pharma says about its own products:
“Biological products have definite risks as they are only partially understood at the time of their approval.”
What are GMOs … Read more
Jim Duke – “Better Living Through Phytochemistry” – with Potentilla recta, Cinquefoil – The Green Farmacy Garden’s legal representative of Cannabis sativa as displayed in the Glaucoma plot of his garden.
If this is your first exposure to Dr. Duke, we strongly recommend you take some time to dig deeper into his work and career.
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John leads guided mushroom walks throughout the Catskill Mountain region. Learn about mushrooms in the woods and their functions in the ecosystem and our lives.
Click here to see the schedule for future walks
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
Learning about plants – how they grow, their essential role in the web of life and how they make human existence possible – should be a subject taught alongside reading, writing and arithmetic in every grade in school.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
