The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Many common herbal plants, when grown in the garden, are drought tolerant. They are native to Mediterranean countries where summers are dry like our own. The biome or ecosystem of Mediterranean ...

According to the World Health Organization, 88% of all countries are estimated to use traditional medicine; more than 40% of pharmaceutical formulations are based on natural products, and many ...

Gyatso Bista remembers the sacks of kutki. As a child learning to become a healer in Nepal’s kingdom of Lo Manthang, Bista ...

In our own era of mysterious diseases, the supposition that some plants might cure the human organs they most resemble is surfacing once more. Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s “Flora,” circa 1591.Credit...Erich ...