I am pleased to announce a new work, co-written with Alison Aliki Fields, included in a three-volume set of essays dedicated to Professor Alain Touwaide "Wild Allium: Apotropaic Magic, Monastic Medicine: Cultural, Ecological, and Phytotherapeutic Importance" doi.org/10.1515/9783...

I am pleased to announce the publication of:
Brinckmann JA, Schippmann U, Marles RJ, Sarma ND, Monagas MJ, Clapper G, Brendler T. Conservation and Protection Status of United States Pharmacopeial Convention’s Compendial Articles of Botanical Origin. Econ Bot (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s122...

Figs, Lemons, and Loquats, getting ripe at my place, Sebastopol - 10. May 2025.

View from the grandstands this afternoon at the Town Hall on Democracy and the Rule of Law with Congressman Jared Huffman and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Congressman Jamie Raskin - 22 April 2025 - College of Marin, Kentfield, California

Public comment period open until 31 Mar 2025 for proposed General Chapter to the United States Pharmacopoeia: “Ensuring Microbiological Quality of Articles of Botanical Origin,” published in Pharmacopoeial Forum. To submit comment, a one-time registration is required: www.uspnf.com/pharmacopeia...

Foto I took some years ago of traditional wooden beehives with straw roof, near the Białowieża Forest, Podlaskie Voivodeship, northeastern Poland near border with Belarus.

A yurt in the distance, eastern Kazakhstan, near border with Xinjiang, some years ago....