Dara is the founder and director of Albuquerque Herbalism and the Yerba Mansa Project. She is also the author of the University of New Mexico Press book The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest.
by Dara Saville Native Medicinal Plants That May Proliferate with Disturbance Events: . Recent news cycles have been dominated by stories of climate change including floods, extreme heat, and wildfires. Disturbance events such as large-scale and high-intensity fires...
by Donna O'Donovan The Ubiquitous Microbe Lactobacillus: . Cabbage leaves provide good habitat for air borne Lactobacillus. Lactobacillus also stars in a compost method known as bokashi, where food waste and scraps become "pickled" via the bokashi process. And,...
Rocky Mountain Medicinal Mushrooms - A Lot About Artist's Conk by Dr. Marija Helt Artist’s Conk. People actually do create art on it. More on this momentarily. But first… A conk is a shelf fungus. “Shelf” because the fruiting body (aka. the reproductive bits)...