Dr. Monica Gagliano
Monica Gagliano is doing amazing work with plant bioacoustics.
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Aug 8
- 2 min
Dr. Paco Calvo
Have you heard of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse? In the tale, the city mouse is more savvy than the country mouse. When it comes...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Jul 5
- 1 min
Plant to Plant Communication
In a prior blog I spoke about the fact that the root brains of a plant can communicate with each other via electrical and chemical...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Jun 1
- 1 min
Sound and Pollination
I read an interesting article that said that plants can detect sound. A researcher from Tel Aviv University wondered if plants could...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- May 1
- 2 min
Who is Using Their Brain?
Is a brain necessary for intelligence? Do brains have to look like that of a human or animal? What if we look at things differently? ...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Apr 3
- 2 min
The Eyes Have It
Sight is an interesting word. It can be defined as what we see or how we see. Sight can also be about perception of what we see as in...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Plant Senses
The nose knows and plants don’t have noses, but there are some fun photos of tree trunks that appear to have them. Can plants smell? ...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Feb 1
- 2 min
On Being--A Plant
On Being-A Plant Being, existence, living, life; these words all describe the same thing. The Oxford dictionary defines intelligence as...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Jan 3
- 1 min
Plant Pioneers
There are many who are researching how plants communicate with each other. Not out of a sense of down-grading human intelligence but to...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
At Year's End
There are so many good books available to read. Sometime in the future I will share more of my favorites. In the new year I will be...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
Thus Spoke the Plant by Monica Gagliano, PHD
Monica Gagliano takes us with her as she shares her experiences with a variety of plants throughout the world. It is the plants that...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Oct 3, 2022
- 1 min
The Family Herbal by Rosemary Gladstar
Rosemary Gladstar has made a positive and lasting influence on herbalism and herbalists from the west to the east coast, as well as...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
The Art of Psychic Reiki by Lisa Campion
Reiki is a word many have heard of by now, but that was not always the case. Even today some people feel the word Reiki sounds like some...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Aug 1, 2022
- 1 min
Mycelium Running How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World By Paul Stamets
In 2011, Paul Stamets was the Keynote Speaker at the International Herbal Symposium in MA. I had not heard of him or his work, but his...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Jul 5, 2022
- 2 min
'Finding the Mother Tree Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest' by Suzanne Simard
This book is about trees, research, discovery, and so much more.
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Jun 1, 2022
- 1 min
Botany in a Day by Thomas J. Elpel
If you or someone you know is a budding plant enthusiast, this is the book for you. Elpel is plant knowledgeable and has created a book...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
Gathering Moss A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Rose Kimmerer
Many people are familiar with Ms. Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass, another must read. My first experience with her writing,...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Apr 1, 2022
- 1 min
Wild Remedies by Rosalee De La Foret & Emily Han
These two women are herbalists from the Northwest yet their teachings reach across geographical areas. This is a delightful book for the...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Mar 1, 2022
- 2 min
Forest Bathing How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Dr. Qing Li
Early in the pandemic, when going to the grocery store was all one should do, I found myself ungrounded. It was a pandemic, after all. ...
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Barbara Aspland-Wolf
- Feb 1, 2022
- 2 min
How Yoga Works by Geshe Michael Roach
This is not a book about how to perform yoga poses. There is no downward dog or warrior 2, and yet there is a dog and there is a warrior....
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