A Plant A Day

⚠️ 🌿 There’s a point in many ingredient journeys where things stall. Not because the plants aren’t compelling or the […]

New work on temperate oaks finds that trees keep absorbing CO₂ long after their annual growth stops. In the eastern

And The Composite family knows how to put on a show. ☀️ 🌸 🌻 🌼

🖼️ They need frames. Some of the frames that show up again and again: ·      Commodity frame: “just another extract at

Climate change isn’t just reshaping forests ➡️ it’s targeting traditional medicine first. A Nature study just published on Amazonian ethnobotany

This post series on botanical ingredient adulteration is inspired by the excellent work coming out of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP)

In this Explorer’s Way clip, Dennis McKenna looks back and laughs at how unimaginable today’s world would have seemed to

A 2025 Nature Medicine study reported brain tissue containing the equivalent weight of a plastic spoon in microplastics…and possibly 50%

In this Explorer’s Way clip, Dennis McKenna talks about how psychedelic experiences have a way of stripping away the illusion

Many botanical and ingredient stories fall flat for one simple reason: They jump straight from “here’s our extract” to “here’s