June 2025

Part cookbook, part garden guide, “The Edible Flower” has everything you need to get started growing — and eating — flowers. Authors Erin Bunting, a chef, and organic gardener Jo Facer have been serving garden-to-table meals at their smallholding in Ireland. Most people think of flowers as decorative additions to a dish, but the truth […]

Like any scientist, mycologist Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian is no stranger to closely examining the world around her. From the Laboulbeniales — multicellular fungi that live on the surface of beetles — that she has made a career of studying, to the copperheads whose company she sought out as a child, Kaishian applies a unique lens

Erin Zimmerman’s “Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science” is a compelling memoir that intertwines her passion for plants with the challenges she faced as a woman in science. Dispersed through the book are botanical illustrations by Zimmerman, and quotes by other scientists begin each chapter. The book is one plant

“I have come to understand eating with the planet and animals in mind as a practice rather than a strict set of rules that must be followed to the letter at all times, no matter one’s circumstances or geography,” writes Alicia Kennedy in “No Meat Required: The Cultural History & Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating.”

If you’re looking for company and inspiration throughout the gardening season — from planting to wintering and in between — you might enjoy the lovely anthology “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for gardens & the hands that tend them.” This book of poems takes us through cyclical gardening seasons. Each of these seasons, from “Weeding &

“ …what it means for me to be a country queer, is that you can’t leave your folk at the door. You can’t act like you grew up with people that weren’t like the people that are acting all kinds of crazy in all kinds of ways.” – Elandria Williams “Country Queers: A Love Letter”