Botanical Community Development Initiatives

A free presentation with Wade Davis, tomorrow! Wade Davis has done incredibly interesting work in the field of ethnobotany and he is an excellent speaker and presenter.

We should know ourselves as a part of our ecosystem and care for it as it cares for us. Learn the plants in your area and become familiar with the landscape. Traditional ecological knowledge is passed down from generations of experience of interacting with the ecosystem. We should be humbled by this and know that we all have so much to learn. Though, something we can all do is go out and observe to see and know our ecosystems for ourselves.

This op-ed from a chef proposes a new cabinet-level Secretary of Food and Agriculture with a seat on the National Security Council. During this pandemic we have been deeply involved in getting good food to people who need it during this time. We are experiencing the need for systemic change right now and we are all a part of making this change happen. Our local and national leadership should reflect this to build and sustain a more equitable food system that can support comm...unities. . "For a fraction of the cost of an industry bailout, we can upgrade public school kitchens across the United States and pay the real cost of a free and nutritious school lunch. In times of disaster, our schools can become community kitchens; there are still food deserts in this country, but there are few school deserts. We can dramatically improve the health of our most vulnerable families by improving the food supplies in our corner stores and in our classrooms." See more

Good morning everyone! Take some advice from an apple and know that we all have so much potential and so much to give.

Interested in learning more about herbaria and how plants are documented for scientific study? This Zoom talk is about to start in just a few minutes!

This upcoming ethnobotany talk about the historically useful plants of Santa Rosa Island is hosted by the California Native Plant Society, Channel Islands Chapter. Check it out!