Reading Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris
In this episode, the Plant Book Club discuss what conservation means in the year 2022.
Reading The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World by Luke Keogh
In this episode, the Plant Book Club go on a trip around the world, learning how a simple plant case changed history. Come contemplate the transformative power of wood and glass with us.
Would you eat the diaper mushrooms? Reading Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
In this episode, Tegan, Ellen, Melissa, Judith and Joram take a break from the world of the chlorophylled to learn about our nearer relatives: fungi! We’re lassoed into the dirt by these hunters, decomposers, delicacies and occasional bankers. If you thought a mushroom was just a little white rounded thing you can buy at the grocery store to add to fried rice, this episode is for you!
The most morbid potato salad ever: Murder Most Florid by Mark Spencer
Lessons from Plants by Beronda Montgomery
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
In this episode, Tegan, Ellen, Judith and Joram dive deep into the forest ecosystem. In Peter Wohlleben’s book “The Hidden Life of Trees” it’s all about what’s going on in the woods. Do trees feel pain? How do they raise their young? And what happens to the trees when the temperatures rise? We’ll try to find some answers in the book and take you along on this journey.
Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa by Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
This month, Tegan, Joram, Ellen, Melissa and Judith read Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa by Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. If you want an in-depth history of the relationships between African nations, scientists, healers and pharmaceutical companies, this is the book for you.
Sexy apples and GMO potatoes: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
This month, Tegan, Joram, Ellen, Melissa and Judith read The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan. If you’re curious about Johnny Appleseed and think Holland is ugly, this is your book!
Poisoned Honey and Cyanide Mysteries: Plants That Kill by Elizabeth A. Dauncey and Sonny Larsson
This month, Tegan, Joram, Ellen, and Melissa read Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World’s Most Poisonous Plants by Elizabeth A. Dauncey and Sonny Larsson. This book taught us so much about the best ways to murder people (green potatoes!) and also how to avoid being poisoned by our weirdest fellow terrestrials.