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Links: Ethnobotany
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The FLowers Growing website is the only online encyclopedia of flowers and plants.
Whether you are looking for a guide on flower arrangements or gardening, or want to write educational articles, or want to download flower related stuff, or simply are looking to learn about the floral industry, the website flowersgrowing will provide you with information you can rely on. With a wide ranging array of topics exclusively devoted to flowers.
A book and online database, has many anicotal descriptions of plant uses in Scotland.
Funky Raw publishes a quarterly magazine covering raw food, wild foods, permaculture, spirituality and ecology. We also have an annual festival and workshops where you can learn about raw and wild foods, yoga, etc.
On online version of the book Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989). Covers many unusual root crops, and fruits as well as a few legumes and grains. Scanned PFD and short summaries.
Maya Mountain Research Farm is a small registered NGO working on issues of food security and biodiversity. Using agroforestry and ethnobotany, MMRF is a collection of hundreds of plant species of use to people. The farm is well developed.
We do outreach, host interns and conduct training and courses. Our client base includes several universities and NGOs, Peace Corps, Government of Belize. Right now we are working on a vanilla project that is very exciting.
A great site for anyone interested in wild foods and useful plants and trees. Wild food and bushcraft courses can also be found here too!
We are building food-forest-theater-studios to create media. Our studios will research sacred poetry based on tree-lore and seasonal observation of life. They will also act as sanctuary to at risk life-forms Then we will produce media to get humans into the "Art of the Fugue" and have them re-fusing to Our Lady Gaia.
A collection of plant databases, including: EcoSys - Plant ecological ranges;
EthnobotDB - Worldwide plant uses; FoodplantDB - Native American food plants;
MPNADB - Medicinal plants of native America and several crop specific databases.
This is a repository of resources of plant uses and information focussing on use by different cultures. The aim of the project is to collect as much "prior art" about the plants as possible. If prior art on a particular plant use exists then in can prevent such information being patented and ensures that the information will remain in the public domain for all to use. The Plants For A Future Dataset is included in this website.
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