A Plant A Day

Society still has not fully resolved the question: are psychedelic substances a potential response to the very diseases modern society […]

Tomorrow I’m releasing a powerful new Explorer’s Way episode featuring Beto Borges, and this clip is your chance to meet

Among the newly named species of 2025 was a striking orchid from Ecuador often described as “bloodstained” for its vivid

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

Too often, Indigenous peoples are spoken about only as symbols: the Hollywood version of the noble savage in harmony with

Mango Ginger (Curcuma amada) is type of ginger with pale-yellow flowers and an underground rhizome which closely resemble common ginger

Beto Borges looks beyond carbon and asks us to rethink how we value nature itself. He explains why he believes

Maitake (aka.Hen of The Woods; Grifola frondosa) is an edible polypore mushroom characterized by its distinctive fan-shaped, overlapping gray-brown caps

Recently, botanists described Plectocomiopsis hantu, a rare and unusual palm from the forests of Borneo. This newly named climbing palm

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