A Plant A Day

In this new Explorer’s Way Episode we dive into the dark arts of adulteration. Stefan Gafner walks us through some […]

In 2025, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew highlighted a remarkable new fungus from Brazil that parasitizes trapdoor spiders, earning it a

Tonic water has its roots in the tropics, where British colonials mixed bitter quinine from cinchona bark into water as

Long before Stefan Gafner was leading the charge on adulteration, he was a pharmacy student sitting in a ski‑week lecture,

Some of the best parts of this work aren’t the plants at all…they’re the people. In this teaser, Stefan Gafner

Tilo (aka. Piri Piri; Justicia pectoralis) is a low, aromatic herb from tropical America in the Acanthaceae, with small leaves

Scientists described Ovicula biradiata, nicknamed the “Woolly Devil,” a remarkable new genus and species discovered in Big Bend National Park,

The Easter bunny was onto something…while the rest of us were distracted by chocolate eggs, that long-eared trendsetter went straight

We talk a lot about “regenerative agriculture” as if it were just a checklist, but on the ground it’s a

One of my recent Joys have been gathering with a group of “Maker” friends…this is the kind of crew that