I have been reflecting on pivotal moments in my life. There is no doubt that reading the essay Green Medicine and Plant Spirit by...

I don’t know what will happen after I die, As the Earth keeps spinning around the sun, With some battles fought, and some victories won,...

When I was 12 years old I stumbled upon a book about the human brain. The first line said something like: “The human brain is so complex...

I'm back in Vancouver now, where the crows come when I whistle and otherwise have lives of their own. I realise I didn't write an update...

The toucan has been with us for more than a month now and she still doesn’t have a name. At first we didn’t want to name her. Freddie,...

I'm happy to say I've learned considerably more about love since writing this three years ago. Learning is perhaps the most precious...

I am the grateful recipient of the first ever London-Wen Gaia Scholarship for women in Ethnobotany! Very grateful to Kathleen Harrison of...

Click "Read More" and scroll down to see how the signs look with their plants. Enjoy!

A new sign outside the Food, Nutrition and Health building at UBC :)

This bleeding heart is writing the saddest lines of poetry - but still she is able to die and be reborn to flower twice a year.

Lancelot Brown, better known as 'Capability Brown' (he won in the names category) was famous landscape architect in18th Century England....

"The Indians addressed life as a “thou,” I mean, trees and stones, everything else. You can address anything as a “thou”, and you can...

Check out this BBC article about plant intelligence. It cites the work of many of the thinkers referenced in the signs, including Dr....

This sign is based on the work of Forest and Conservation Science Professor Suzanne Simard at UBC. Here she is speaking on mother trees...

The plant signs have now been installed on the UBC Campus. I'll be posting some pictures over the coming days. Feel free to send me any...