Desert Botanical Garden has named Arizona nonprofit leader and community connector Chris Kline as its next President and Chief Executive Officer.
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The yard is a mess, but we don’t have a ton of money to spend on the yard. The dry patches get a beat down from the sun in the summer and we do not have any automatic irrigation. I’m thinking of prioritizing the trees and once I get my slash pile cleaned up put some there.
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Botany One interviews Dr. Dmitry Sokoloff, a speaker at the “Evolutionary History of the Gnetales” symposium held during Botany 2025.
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Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, a bright yellow worm thrives where no other animals dare, in toxic hydrothermal vents saturated with arsenic and sulfide. By cleverly turning these poisons into a golden mineral once prized by Renaissance painters, the worm neutralizes the deadly threat and survives in one of Earth’s most hostile habitats. Scientists say this unusual “fighting poison with poison” strategy could change how we think about life’s resilience in extreme environments.
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Prunella vulgaris can be found all over the place. It has also been used to treat just about everything. What else would you expect from a plant known commonly as self-heal, heal-all, all-heal, and woundwort? The medicinal value of this plant has been appreciated for centuries across its expansive range, and studies evaluating its medicinal […]
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Prunella vulgaris can be found all over the place. It has also been used to treat just about everything. What else would you expect from a plant known commonly as self-heal, heal-all, all-heal, and woundwort? The medicinal value of this plant has been appreciated for centuries across its expansive range, and studies evaluating its medicinal […]
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Activists claim Anant Ambani’s Vantara facility has no plan to return its endangered species to the wild
India’s supreme court has ordered an investigation into a vast private zoo founded by the son of Asia’s richest person over allegations of illegal wildlife imports and financial misconduct.
Home to a reported 200 lions, 250 leopards and 900 crocodiles, Vantara in western Gujarat state describes itself as the “world’s biggest wild animal rescue centre”. It is run by Anant Ambani, a son of Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire head of the conglomerate Reliance Industries, and was one of the venues for his extravagant wedding celebrations last year, where celebrities were encouraged to wear “jungle fever” outfits.
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| Processing herbs for medicine in the Plant and Place Immersion |
What an incredible season we’ve had with the Plant and Place Immersion! We’ve explored botany, taxonomy, plant ID, medicine-making, materia medica and the human constitution. We’ve honed our sit spots and found new ones too. We’ve barefoot walked, contributed to a medicine wheel garden, and discovered goldenrod galls and broad-winged hawks. We’ve cultivated relationships with neglected gardens and the deer that visit them, appreciated monarchs and gigantic grasshoppers and eastern amber wings, and invited bunnies to snooze in our chamomile beds. We’ve discovered human connection too, and the spirit-medicine that comes from being part of community that shares a love for the natural world. Apparently, I’ve been so immersed I haven’t posted here on the blog in months.
We’re now just one weekend away from our last in-person weekend session. I’ve got all the feels. But lucky for me, participants will gather once more in November for our Autumn Plant Walk. We’ve walked a plant-ti-full path together. I’d love to share with you some snapshots from our journey in the Plant and Place Immersion.
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| Exploring the Milford Experimental Forest |
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| Black Birch tea to close a forest bath |
During our first weekend, we introduced ourselves and became better acquainted, with each other and the forest, through a forest bathing session. The 1,400- acre Milford Experimental Forest provided the perfect place to begin our path together. We discovered hideaways in big ol’ trees, reveled in the soundscape of birdsong, creaking trees, and faraway cars, and sipped fragrant black birch tea. We shared our stories.
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| Gathering organoleptic knowledge about the plants by using our senses |
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| Journaling our impressions |
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| Learning botanical terms |
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| Keying out plants for accurate plant identification |
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| Enjoying wild food together |
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| Nettle compound butter topped adorned with violet |
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| Making herbal infused oil |
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| Straining herbs |
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| Prepping yarrow for tincture |
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| Breaking up Yarrow to be made into tincture |
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| Scott, Lakota Pipe Carrier |
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| Paulie and Erin of Blue Herons Farm and Native Nursery |
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| Contributing to the Community Medicine Wheel Garden |
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| Bryanna with her work of art for the garden |
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| Naturalist Emily Woodmansee sharing methods for nature connection |
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| Having fun sans shoes with Barefoot Ken |
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| In the field |
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Government officials are seemingly working to cover up the dangers and health risks. Nobody as of yet knows what is in this stuff other than that its “mostly” oil, but presumably lots of other chemicals as well. Waiting to hear from neighbors what independent lab testing shows. We didn’t get the worst of the “black rain” like some people who got completely covered, but are still worried about what did get on our plants, in the water and soil, etc… are thinking of just abandoning the property which has been in the family since the 1800’s. The oil plant sits in the recharge zone of the huge Southern Hills aquifer that supplies most of SE Louisiana above the saltwater line with drinking water.. Oil in the river i grew up fishing on.. Anyways I keep thinking maybe I can do some sort of massive bioremediation effort using fungi, mostly because its so hard to let go of the land I grew up on and 10 years of work planting and maintaining a food forest all on my own.. but part of me feels that its hopeless and not worth getting cancer, which we were probably already at risk of before the explosion.. if we leave I will essentially have nothing. Lots of big farms around me are proceeding with business as usual because they haven’t planted their fall crops yet and because the EPA and DEQ are acting like its no big deal. It could be cool to move to a community of like-minded permaculture people instead of living in a poisoned town with people who are openly proud of being in the KKK.. but I don’t know where to start. Went WWOOFing one summer and it was a total bust/scam most of the time.. worked like a slave for meager meals and learned very little other than not to blindly trust people that claim to be permaculturists. I think it will be hard to sell the land, especially after this event. The lot across the street from us has been on the market for the last 10 years or longer.
For bioremediation I am thinking remove topsoil and vegetation, mix with woodchips, inoculate with fungi and let it do it thing, then later compost it all and test to determine if its safe to spread.
The good news is.. well we no longer have a chemical plant 3 miles from our house.
Thoughts?
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An e-Gro Alert from Alicia Rihn covers the differences between online and in-store plant purchasing behaviors.
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