A Plant A Day

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

Recently, scientists gave the fungal world a little more personality by describing three new Russula species: Russula lapponica, R. neopascua,

One of my favorite things about the Pacific coast is the diversity of kelp both found in the tidal zone