I love these articles I find posted on Portland Indymedia from time to time. They're like a walk in the woods with a grandparent filled with ancestrial wisdom, who's always pointing out the wonderful things in nature I would otherwise have neglected to notice.
Online Radical Botany Skill Share
Plant/human communities and the White Oak
Learning the Lay of the Land and Oregon Grape
Plant Identification and Miner's Lettuce
Plants as Shelter and Willow
Plants for clothes, shoes and utility- Plant: Cattail
Seeds and wild plants-Valuable?
The Great Harvest
Nettles and the potherb
Horsetail
I'll update this post when I see new articles.
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5 comments:
Jody~
Have you read "Botany of Desire"? It is a fascinating book by Michael Pallen(sp?) on the history of various plants. Well, 3 specifically...Tulips, Marijuana, Potatoes.
What's new in SF?
Styve
Hi, Styve! No, I haven't read that book. Will look into it though. I'll post anything spectacularly new in SF on my blog when I have (Internet) time, which is rare these days.
Thanks for getting back to me here. I forgot the best section of the book...the history of Johnny Appleseed and the role of apples in American botany, etc.
Take care~
Styve
Jody,
Thank you for archiving these articles over the last few years. I was not in the position to archive them myself. You are a keeper of my craft. Thank you so much.
I have now created a website called Radical Botany. I will be reposting the 13 weeks of Radical botany Skillshares on my website, plus I have added a lot of plant knowledge for native plants in Cascadia. I also have added links to allow others learn about the plants as well as maps and ethnobotany. Thanks again for archiving and spreading the word. My new website can be found at www.radicalbotany.com
See you in the deep woods.
Z Cascadia AKA - Ellen O'Shea
Wow, Ellen, that looks like it's going to be a really cool site! I'll put it in my "Favorite Websites" section.
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