Month: December 2013

  • The Plant Nutter’s Virtual Book Club

    My friend (and newly qualified Ethnobotanist) Emma Cooper has started a virtual book club. More about Emma’s studies later, as we were a case study in Emma’s thesis. Her idea is that participants will read a set book every other month and we then discuss this online. For more details about how this will work…

  • Please help now to save our spuds

    If you’ve grown potatoes, you’ll probably know the heartbreak that late blight can cause you. It can wipe out your crop. If you eat potatoes, I’m sure you’d like to eat ones that are free from copper (a heavy metal), fungicides & pesticides. But to prevent crop losses, conventional farmers use the copper & other…