Primary Instructors 

Marc Williams

Marc Williams is an ethnobotanist. He has studied the people plant connection intensively while learning to employ botanicals for food, medicine, and beauty. His training includes a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies concentrating in Sustainable Agriculture 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 a decade working at a multitude of restaurants, various farms, and travels throughout 23 countries in North/Central America and Europe. Marc has taught hundreds of people about the marvelous world of plants, people and their interface.  His greatest hope is that this information may help improve our current challenging global ecological situation. 

You can view Marc's resume by clicking on the underlined link here.

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.com and 

Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Frank-Cook/88981199010?ref=ts

Other Callaborators via Facebook

Botany Everyday also has a Facebook component. So far three major contributors have stepped up in this forum.

Jonathan Poston (Asheville, NC) - Photographer, Chief question asker! :-) www.fastpivot.com

Robin Allison (Asheville, NC) - Botanical naming and medicinal information

Susan Marynowski  (Florida)- Botanical commentary and medicinal information Pandion systems

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.