Primary Instructors 
Marc Williams
Ethnobiologist Marc Williams has studied the people, plant, mushroom and microbe interconnection intensively while learning to employ botanicals and other life forms for food, medicine, and beauty in a regenerative manner. His training includes a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies concentrating in Sustainable Agriculture with a minor in Business from Warren Wilson College and a Master’s degree in Appalachian Studies concentrating in Sustainable Development with a minor in Geography and Planning from Appalachian State University. He has spent over two decades working at a multitude of restaurants and various farms and has traveled throughout 31 countries in Central/North/South America and Europe as well as all 50 states of the USA. Marc has visited over 200 botanical gardens and research institutions during this process while taking tens of thousands of pictures of representative plants and other entities. He has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of students about the marvelous world of people and their interface with other organisms while working with over 100 organizations and particularly as a key contributor to the work of United Plant Savers, Plants and Healers International and online at the website www.botanyeveryday.com. Marc's greatest hope is that this effort may help improve our current challenging global ecological situation.
You can view Marc's resume by clicking on the link here.
A list of potential classes on offer for conferences, groups and schools is below.
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Afrobotany |
Food Fermentation |
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Agrobiodiversity |
Food as Medicine |
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Andean Ethnobotany |
Forage and Feast |
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Aphrodisiac Plants for Consideration and Formulation |
Invasivorism |
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Alpine, Artic, Boreal Ethnobotany |
Local Small Scale Food Production |
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Appalachian Ethnobotany |
Medicinal Plant Application, Conservation, Cultivation |
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Aquatic Ethnobotany |
Neotropical Botany |
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Beverage Biology of the World |
Phytoremediation |
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Botany by Family the Key to See |
Plants for Biodiversity Support |
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Caribbean Ethnobotany |
The Poisonous Plant Path |
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Challenges and Opportunities with Exotic Invasive Plants |
The Pawpaw and Its Tropical Relatives |
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Temperate Craft Plant Ethnobotany |
The Art and Science of Pruning |
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Desert Ethnobotany |
Unusual Vegetables from Mountains to Sea |
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Dutch Ethnobotany |
Using I-Naturalist and Other Electronic Tools for Botanizing |
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Ethnobotany and Sustainability |
Winter Botany |
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Ethnobotany of Ferns and their Allies |
Weaving and Mending: Herbalism from the Past in the Present and for the Future |
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Ethnomycology |
Western USA Ethnobotany |
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Food Fermentation |
Woody Plant Ethnobotany |
Frank Cook
Frank Cook taught an online class using the book Botany in a Day for 9 years. Frank left his physical body on August 19th 2009. This website was fueled by an inspiration to continue his work educating the public about botany. Frank taught thousands of people to appreciate plants and each other in the time that he graced us with his presence on the planet. It is still hard to characterize in words what this great man means to the world and the discipline of Ethnobotany.
More information on Frank can be found at:
http://www.plantsandhealers.org and
Facebook at the Frank Cook page and Plants and Healers International page
Other Callaborators via Facebook
Botany Everyday also has a Facebook component
Susan Marynowski (Florida)- Botanical commentary and medicinal information Pandion systems
Juliet Blankespoor (Asheville, NC) - Blog poster of exceptionally gifted aesthetic and medicinal plant knowledge ability. She is also director of an school of botanical medicine in Asheville. www.chestnutherbs.com
7 Song (Ithaca, NY) - Teacher of Frank Cook, Juliet Blankespoor, Corey Pine Shane, Marc Williams and many others. He posts amazingly informative and beautiful articles on plants through facebook and other web outlets while also running the Northeast school of Botanical Medicine www.7song.com
Upcoming and Future Contributors
The hope is that over time friends of Frank Cook will step up from far and wide including Florida, Peru, Costa Rica, California, Dominica, England, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Oregon, Maryland, North Carolina etc...Any other people that are so inclined would be most welcome as well.