The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks seed collections Baja CA Natural Habitat Streamsides

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This unusual cultivar of hummingbird sage has peach-yellow colored flowers and fragrant foliage

what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians

and is a gift to the pollinators

Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks seed collections Baja CA Natural Habitat StreamsidesA New York Times Bestseller Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries. Of all the extraordinary and obscure plants that have