Helping you become better acquainted with the plants in your world has always been one of ArtPlantae’s objectives. One of the favorite topics around here is economic botany (i.e., the origin and domestication of plants). Always interesting, this subject defines the role plants play in our lives like no other subject. It is real-world, everyday, practical botany. We’re into that. This is why the economic botany category in the bookstore was renamed “Plants & YOU”. The phrase “economic botany” wasn’t particularly “everyday” and caused too many people to scratch their heads and ask, “What’s that?”
For your reading pleasure, the following titles have been added to the Plants & YOU category at ArtPlantae Books:
Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
Features case studies documenting the handling of food from farmyard to grocery store.
Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent
Photojournalist, John Reader, traces this popular tuber from its domestication in Peru 8,000 years ago to its current status as the world’s fourth largest food crop.
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