Chlorophyll Corner
Chlorophyll Corner: Live in the Moment with Cherry Blossoms
The cherry blossom season reminds us of how wonderfully fleeting life's beauty can be.
Chlorophyll Corner
Chlorophyll Corner: Poplar — The Tree who Speaks the Language of Streams
Chlorophyll Corner is a monthly column exploring the cultural, ecological, and medicinal relationships between people and plants. Grounded in ethnobotany and the One Health model, it examines how traditional plant knowledge supports our access to land-based healing across diverse communities.
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Chlorophyll Corner: Depths of Winter Accompanied by Douglas Fir
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3072"] A Douglas Firs’ bottle brush needle display on branches as well as cone showing unique "mouse in house" cone. Photo by Eden Blooms [/caption] Chlorophyll Corner is a monthly column by Eden Blooms that explores the cultural, ecological,
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Chlorophyll Corner: Bigleaf Maple and the Art of Letting Go
[caption id align="alignnone" width="995"] Photo by Jessaca Kéet [/caption] Chlorophyll Corner is a monthly column by Eden Blooms that explores the cultural, ecological, and medicinal relationships between people and plants. Grounded in ethnobotany and the One Health model, it examines how traditional plant knowledge
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Chlorophyll Corner: Apple - the plant that grows stories from seed
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1080"] Photo by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms As fall settles over Cascadia, the last golden rays of summer peek through the incoming overcast. The plants, environment, and human worlds have all begun their intrinsic descent
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Chlorophyll Corner: Mugwort and the Moon's Honest Light
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1079"] Photo by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms As summer exhales its final breath and fog banks roll in to calm the fire-smoke skies, Cascadia enters its most dramatic seasonal shift. The air thickens with moisture,
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Chlorophyll Corner: Queen Anne's Lace an Ethereal Weed
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1079"] Photo by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms Each summer, the roadsides and beaches of Cascadia bloom with delicate, large white round flowers that resemble lace doilies—Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota), a wild member
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Chlorophyll Corner: Oregon Grape, A Hero in Healthcare
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1080"] Photo by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms Summer is afoot, calling us together to defrost our worn winter bones in the sun's golden rays and dive into the snowmelt-chilled waters of Cascadia. It&
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Chlorophyll Corner: Salmonberry, Ecologies of Interconnectedness
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3072"] Photo by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms This time of year, I’m enchanted by the song of the Swainson’s Thrush swirling through the air. These small but mighty birds are long-distance migrants, traveling
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Chlorophyll Corner: Western Trillium, A Call to Protect The Sacred
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3072"] Photo and illustration by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms Amidst the towering forests of Cascadia, a fleeting bloom is beginning to make its appearance in the understory - Western Trillium, Trillium ovatum. This gentle yet
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Chlorophyll Corner: Osoberry, Cascadia's very own Groundhog
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3072"] Photo by Molly Maverick, illustration by Eden Blooms. [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms. This week heralds the arrival of spring, stirring my senses awake alongside nature's reawakening from a deep slumber. Standing on a winding
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Chlorophyll Corner: Skunk Cabbage or Swamp Lantern?
[caption id align="alignnone" width="817"] Photo by Molly Maverick, illustration by Eden Blooms. [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms. For many who grew up in Cascadia, memories of elementary school field trips often include visits to wetlands, many of which were lowland wetlands.