"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 been fermented and distilled, a few are dangerous, some are downright bizarre, and one is as ancient as dinosaurs--but each represents a unique cultural contribution...

The jungle comes alive as children learn about a wide variety of animals and plants living in the Amazon rainforest, in this adaptation of the song "The green grass grew all around." Includes "For Creative Minds" section with animal and plant adaptation facts and a recipe.

Rhyming text and illustrations introduces animals with a cumulative amount of young--from one alligator to ten crayfish--that live in the Okefenokee Swamp.

"Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs -- opium, caffeine, and mescaline -- and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring...

When Raffa makes a cure from a rare crimson vine he finds deep in the forbidden forest, the bat he saves transforms into something much more.

The colorful, peculiar history of the houseplant-from ancient Rome to Victorian England to Instagram-a botanical adventure full of histrionic highs, devastating lows, and sensational turning points along the way. From the hanging gardens of Babylon to that fiddle-leaf fig in your living room, houseplants have been humanity's companions for a millennia. Taming the Potted Beast explores the history of our air-purifying friends with an entertaining...

Can you grow mushrooms at home? Does it require expensive equipment and special know how? How do you get started? What equipment do you need? Is it difficult? What if you don't have a green thumb? It's a lot easier to grow mushrooms today than it ever has been. For decades, most of the mushrooms we ate came from giant farms using lab-based cultivation practices that required expensive equipment and demanding degrees of precision. If you are a mushrooms...

An old friend visits Zoey with a glowing seed pod. Zoey, Sassafras and Pip must work together to discover what this mysterious and rare magical plant needs to grow before all the seeds crumble to purple dust!--from book jacket.

Have you heard about magic mushrooms and their amazing healing properties? Do you want to learn more about psilocybin, a natural psychedelic compound of mushrooms? Are you looking for a complete guide on the biological and chemical properties of magic mushrooms? If you answered "Yes" to at least one of those questions, then keep reading… A lot of scientific research proved the healing properties of these mushrooms, with powerful and therapeutic...

Eliminate the guesswork out of growing and harvesting edible and medicinal mushrooms from the comfort of your home with this comprehensive guide to cultivating mushrooms for fun and profit Do you want to learn how to grow your own mushrooms, but don't know where to begin? Have you been searching for information to take your mushroom growing skills to the next level without depending on pesticides without much success? If you answered yes to any of...