Poet and farmer Wendell Berry offers a clear look at the problems we face in the world of industrial farms.
How do we treat the land? What are we doing when we see land and food as commodities instead of essential parts of life with real value?
The industrialization of agriculture has taken us away from an intelligent and affectionate connection with … Read more
On a recent trip to Morocco (my first trip there and my first trip out of the country in nearly five years), I got to see how an intact culture deals with health issues.
Drugs, no.
Plants, yes.
One of the plants that is treasured in Morocco and elsewhere is one many of us think of as just a culinary herb.
Wrong. It is a very potent healer. (And when … Read more
We’re continuing our exploration of Aegean herb culture.
Here’s a surprising modern validation of one of the “tall tales” of the Odyssey involving “magic” plants.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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This might be the last time you hear from me for a while.
There is a ton of life- changing information on the Plant Wisdom site.
I have put some of our “greatest hits” together on one page.
I hope you will take advantage of it and share it widely with people who need it now.
One thing we can always count on are the plants. We just have to … Read more
McMaster University is located in Hamilton, Ontario, an industrialized city on the shores of Lake Ontario, south of Toronto.
This is a description of the program there that Elder Bertha Skye is part of.
The Indigenous Students Health Sciences (ISHS) office is solely dedicated to providing services and supports for the academic success and wellbeing of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis students in the Faculty of Health Sciences at … Read more
A healing “weed” that grows free is just coming into its own in the northeast.
You can learn more about Diana’s course here.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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The Threefold nature of plants and reading the Book of Nature
A fascinating conversation with Dr. Thomas Cowan.
We found this video here:
https://www.gardensall.com/specialty-crops/
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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An interview with Phyllis D. Light, author of Southern Folk Medicine, the first comprehensive treatment of one of America’s most valuable, but little known natural healing treasures.
You can order the book here: Southern Folk Medicine
You can get more information here about Phyllis Light’s work and The Appalachian Center for Natural Health
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Monsanto has succeeded in subverting virtually every mainstream news outlet and academic plant science program in the US. Those it has not bought off, it has terrorized into silence.
Of the handful of legitimate scientists who have published research questioning the safety of GMOs, more than one has had their careers ruined by pressures imposed by the company and its agents.
Add to this a choir of high-profile “useful idiots” … Read more
Fascinating talk by Wade Davis on the varieties of human experience, the value of the existence of these diverse worlds views and the serious and ongoing threat to indigenous people around the world.
At the 11:23 point Davis explains how it is that forest dwellers make profound botanical discoveries that elude the most advanced western science.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
