Winter rains in southern California bring forth an abundance of wild edible plants that are good for food and medicine. In ...

Some of the first examples of animal's using plant medicine appear in Aristotle's History of Animals, which was written in the fourth century BCE. Aristotle noted how dogs consume grass when not ...

A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the ...

Domesticated plants are those which have been adapted from the wild for human use, often over thousands of years. Around 12-thousand years ago, hunter-gatherer societies began cultivating a wide ...