Ethnobotanical Trip to Costa Rica

Recently i returned to Costa Rica for the first couple weeks of March. The main focus of the trip was to help bring to completion a book on the Plants and Healers of Costa Rica which was started over a decade ago by Tenasi Rama, Frank Cook and Tin Contreras. However, first i headed north … Read more

PHI Travels in Peru 2016

i recently spent a month in South America. The first half of the trip was focused on a botanical tour sponsored by Plants and Healers Ineternational (PHI). i co-led the tour with PHI Board of Director’s member Turtle. Wither a local guide of Quecha decent was a great help in identifying many plants and providing … Read more

Botanizing in the Minnesota Winter

Recently PHI Executive Director, Marc Williams got the opportunity to visit Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota for a week largely due to the generosity of good friend and colleague Rob Routhieaux. Being that it was winter one might think that there was not much botanizing to be done. However, St Paul has a marvelous conservatory in Como … Read more

Ethnobotanical Journey to Jamaica

Jamaican Sustainable Farm Enterprise Program at the Source Farm Sponsored by Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA). Florida Association for Voluntary Action in the Caribbean and the Americas (FAVCA) & US AID I was tickled recently to be accepted into a development program in Jamaica partly facilitated by friends and mentors Chuck Marsh and Tony Kleese. Both of these … Read more