This month we thought we’d let you know about a rather good UK-based source of ethnobotanical seeds and plants, Arkham’s Botanical. Billing themselves as a specialist “one-stop” source for ornamental, exotic and ethnobotanical plant species, the site offers over a hundred different species of rare and desirable genera such as Acacia, Desmanthus, Ipomoea, Lophophora, Phalaris, Salvia and Trichocereus…
Barcelona’s Jardins de Mossèn Costa i Llobera is one of Europe’s oldest & largest publicly-accessible collections of cacti & succulent plants. Recently renovated, the gardens are situated in the Montjuic area of the city & offer a breath-taking panoramic view of Barcelona’s coastline…
‘Eduardo the Healer’ (originally ‘Eduardo el Curandero’) is a nice little find – a fly-on-the-wall ethnobotanical documentary following sympathetic Peruvian sculptor, folk healer/ shaman, former trainee priest & fisherman Eduardo Calderón over the course of a typical day…
We’ve been enjoying Vice’s excellent TV documentary series ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia’ since its inception in 2011 & – with the recent premiering of the second season of the show – we figured it was about time we highlighted it on Dissident Reality…
‘Animals and Psychedelics…’ is a slim yet hugely exciting volume from ethnobotanist and ethnomycologist Giorgio Samorini…
The second of our three part series on the UK’s resident psilocybin mushroom species, concentrating on the Panaeolus and Pluteus genera.
As the UK mushroom picking season is nearly upon us, we thought it would be a good time to start our three part series on the various psilocybin-containing species, including those hitherto unnoticed by many budding psychonauts…