followup to urban assault forestry. my town just got designated as a “tree city USA” so we cool. happy arbor day.

on the herbal level though, here is a gold mine of open source botanical medicine:

http://www.swsbm.com/homepage/

this essay was linked on the front page:

http://www.swsbm.com/homepage/Anarcho-herbalism.html

There is an alternative to “alternative medicine”. Southwestern herbalist, author, and teacher Michael Moore probably said it best in one of his recent digressions from a lecture: “In this country, the herb business mostly revolves around recently marketed substances with new research, and it comes from them to us. Whereas we’re trying to establish as much as possible (in this “lower level” if you will) the fact that we need to create a practice and a model that’s impervious to faddism. We’re trying to practice in a way that derives from practice rather than from marketing. Not from above to below but from below around. Bioregionalism uber alles. Keep it local. No centralization because centralization kills everything.”