By the Seed of Our Plants

Ep. 15: Helping Herbs

By the Seed of Our Plants is back! Ben, Ben, and Victoria talk with herbalist Kat Maier of Sacred Plant Traditions Center for Herbal Studies [https://sacredplanttraditions.com/] about the history, politics, and ecology of herbalism. Check out Kat’s book Energetic Herbalism [https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/energetic-herbalism/]. Here’s the article [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w] about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation current that Ben mentioned in the show.

Ep. 14: The Green Wall

Ben and Ben talk with landscape architect Grant Poznick about perceiving complexity in the botanical landscape. Desert sounds, invisible plants, caring about water, and most other subjects.

Ep. 13: Monster Mash

Ben and Ben and returning guest Victoria Moyer stick our heads up the downspout of the internet, in which we find the life and times of sociologist Bruno Latour, the Great Chain of Being, the Four Sacred Animals, forbidden technologies, a ferocious Belgian accent, and disputed Connecticut tree monsters.

Ep. 12: Panorama

Ben and Ben are joined by Denise Low, PhD., former poet laureate of Kansas and author of Wing, Melange Block, The Turtle’s Beating Heart, and many others, to talk about wildfires, the Flint Hills, surviving genocide, writing poetry about landscapes, and being useful in trying circumstances. Check out Denise’s work and order books at her website: deniselow.net [https://deniselow.net/]

Ep. 11: This Island Earth

Ben interviews Dustin Wolkis of the Juliet Rice Wichman Botanical Research Center [https://ntbg.org/science/collections/brc/] and the National Tropical Botanical Garden [https://ntbg.org/] about Hawai'ian native plants, and the tragedies and triumphs of working against extinction. Dustin mentioned a bunch of cool programs throughout the interview.  Check the full show notes on our website [https://www.littlebluestem.net/bytheseedofourplants/episode-11].