An Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning the Power of Plants
Plants are the most important, least understood, most taken for granted of all living things. - Malcom Wilkens (1988) as cited in Babaian & Twigg (2011) Biology professors Caryn Babaian and Paul...
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Jeanne Baret was born in 1740 to very poor parents living in an agricultural community in France. Earning money only when their labor was needed, Baret’s parents often did not have food for their small...
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Cultural anthropologist, Emanuela Appetiti, and historian of science, Alain Touwaide, believe that cultures would not have invested time and energy into medical formulas if they were not effective. To...
View ArticleLearn Botany Everyday in Online Course
Draw everyday. Botanize everyday. See what’s new at Classes Near You > North Carolina! Botany Everyday www.botanyeveryday.com Marc Williams of BotanyEveryday.com is an ethnobotanist who leads an...
View ArticleInformal Botany Education Can Improve Plant Recognition Skills
In the introduction to her research paper, Botanical Knowledge of a Group of South Carolina Elementary School Students, Chandra L. Cooper shares a quote by anthropologist Eugene S. Hunn in which he...
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