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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · 5d

This online event is happening tomorrow which means there's still to sign up!

Join us for this inspiring event with Maria Thereza Alves, Jessica Lee, Marcello Di Paola, Goldie Poblador AND a panel discussion on plants, memory, and belonging.

Registration is free via the 🔗 in the post below

Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · 25d

The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'

Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics

Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies

Poster for the event Plants, Memory Belonging

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 6d

We've put a new post up on our blog, in which Maria Kernecker explores how plants can provide a 'way in' to a landscape; the relates to her recently published article in 'Plant Perspectives'. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social whitehorsepress.blog/2025/10/07/p...

Plants as a Way In

In this blog, linked to her recently published article in Plant Perspectives, entitled BETWEEN GRAZING AND GATHERING: PLANT KNOWLEDGES, BELONGING AND BECOMING IN THE SWISS ALPS, Maria Kernecker exp…

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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 11d

Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue.

www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...

Image of the fruit and seeds of the ackee tree in front of leaves.

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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 11d

Huge thanks to the team at @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social and @sarahwhpress.bsky.social for creating such stunning designs for our special #arborealhumanities issue!
Check out all the beautifully crafted papers, poetry and reviews at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...

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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to announce that our special issue of #PlantPerspectives @plantperspectives.bsky.social journal is NOW LIVE 🎊🎉🍾🥂

See:
whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
Great range of papers, poetry, narrative non-fiction, and book reviews on the #arborealhumanities 🌳

Huge thanks to @planthums-uk.bsky.social

Plant Perspectives

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 12d

Happy to have my essay on P.B. Shelley and Wordsworth's 'woodland state' included in the 'Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities' special issue of @plantperspectives.bsky.social, ed. by @treeseeker.bsky.social & @planthums-uk.bsky.social 🌿🌳

Article cover image of a blossoming branch in front of a stack of books

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planthums-uk.bsky.social @planthums-uk.bsky.social · 13d

#PLANTS, #MEMORY, #BELONGING free online event October 8, 2025, 16.00-18.00 GMT. Sponsored by #Oak_Spring_Garden_Foundation & @plantperspectives.bsky.social Featuring: Maria Thereza Alves, Jessica J Lee, Marcello Di Paola, Goldie Poblador. Register: www.osgf.org/programs-and...

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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · 13d

The latest issue is out: Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities, guest edited by @rbgkew.bsky.social's Caroline Cornish & Christina Hourigan

Featuring research articles on arboreal biographies, poetics of place, resistance & more; poetry, and book reviews 🌲🌳

🔗: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 24d

The video recording is now available free of the Plant Initiative webinar Strangers at Home: Plant-Human Migrations: A conversation with Yota Batsaki and Giovanni Aloi, that was held Sep 18, 2025. Topics include invasive plants, plant humanities, and more. youtu.be/TLpmI9sIlJs

Strangers at Home: Plant-Human Migrations - A conversation with Yota Batsaki and Giovanni Aloi

YouTube video by The Plant Initiative

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 26d

'Plant Perspectives' is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'. See attached for updated details; and you can register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and....
@plantperspectives.bsky.social
#envhum #plantstudies #envhist

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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · 25d

Might be of interest to the #ecocriticism community as well @easlce.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social 🌱

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Sep 12

We've published another article online first in 'Plant Perspectives, by Maria Lee Kernecker on 'Between Grazing and Gathering: Plant Knowledges, Belonging and Becoming in the Swiss Alps'; online here: doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #envhum #plantstudies

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 28d

We've published a new book review online first in 'Plant Perspectives'; Ximena Sevilla reviews Diego Molina's book 'Planting a City in the Tropical Andes: Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920'. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #plantstudies #envhist

Diego Molina, 'Planting a City in the Tropical Andes: Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920' | Plant Perspectives

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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · 25d

The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'

Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics

Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · Mar 21

The new issue Vol 2, Issue 1 of the interdisciplinary open access @plantperspectives.bsky.social Plant Perspectives Journal is available for free download, and includes many interesting plant-related articles as well as poetry & reviews. www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/

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planthums-uk.bsky.social @planthums-uk.bsky.social · Mar 18

#KEW_GARDENS / #WAKEHURST based #POSTDOC #RESEARCH #FELLOWSHIP, 4 yrs, #interdisciplinary applications welcome, deadline 20 April 2025. More: careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-... @kewgardens.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social @plantperspectives.bsky.social @natsca.bsky.social
#plant_humanities

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Mar 19

We’ve published issue 2.1 of ‘Plant Perspectives’, #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social

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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · Mar 20

Very pleased indeed to share the latest issue of Plant Perspectives! Read the full OA issue at www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/

We have research articles on poppies, design and photography (amongst other plants and topics); non-fiction writing & poetry, and book reviews 🌱

#PlantStudies #envhum #envhist

The cover of plant perspectives volume 2, issue 1. The cover image is of the bottom of a large mossy tree trunk and some deliciously chunky exposed tree roots.

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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · Mar 17

There's still time to sign up for Gifts from the Sentient Forest's session on 'TEA CULTURES OF THE NORTH: Connecting to the Plant Wisdom of the Arctic'.

This online event will be held in collaboration with us(!) and the newly formed International Network for Tea Studies. 🍵🫖

TEA CULTURES OF THE NORTH: Connecting to the Plant Wisdom of the Arctic

Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 3–5pm Helsinki Time

In collaboration with the International Network for Tea Studies and The White Horse Press

On Wednesday, 19th March 2025 at 3pm, the Kone Foundation-supported project Gifts from the Sentient Forest will host a cross-disciplinary discussion of the wild and cultivated tea plants of Northern Europe. Gifts from the forest arrive to us in diverse forms including as wild healing teas gathered across the Northern seasons as part of land-based cultural traditions. This seminar will connect the idea of forest sentience to the detoxification, rejuvenation, and healing of people, plants, and places. With diverse backgrounds in phytochemical research, Indigenous Sámi culture, and natural products design, our speakers will share their knowledge of the curative attributes of angelica, coltsfoot, Labrador tea, nettle, northern sweetgrass, roseroot, willow, and other northern species. This event will be held in collaboration with the newly formed International Network for Tea Studies as well as the new plant humanities journal Plant Perspectives published by The White Horse Press.

Åsa Andersson Martti will introduce some of the major spring immunity teas of Sápmi. Martyna Vengrytė will present her research conducted with Lina Raudonė on the medicinal potential of Labrador tea in the Northern Hemisphere. Katja Misikangas will share the wisdom of Arctic herbs based on her family experiences and her work with Arctic Warriors.

This free seminar will be offered as part of Gifts from the Sentient Forest with support from the Kone Foundation’s ‘In the Woods’ funding programme. The project aims to understand how recognising the plant world of Northern Finland in contexts other than exploitation can illuminate the ways forests rejuvenate human-nature relationships and
sustain the Earth.

Please register by sending a brief email to: sentientforestproject@gmail.com

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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · Mar 13

And another ahead of print on the website: Cole Swanson’s “Among the Drupes (Elegy for a Wasteland)” link to the article in bio 🔗 #envhum #plantstudies

Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · Mar 12

Ahead of print in Plant Perspectives: Jeffrey Wall’s “The Case for Folk Valuation of Plant Genetic Resources: Redeeming Nikolay Vavilov’s Multiculturalist Plant Conservation Principles” - find the #OA on our website via the link in bio 🔗 #envhum #PlantStudies

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Mar 4

There's still time to sign up for 'Tea Cultures of the North: Connecting to the Plant Wisdom of the Arctic', an online event on 19th March. We’re delighted to be working with the International Network for Tea Studies; more details attached. #plantstudies #tea #arctic
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Mar 3

Here's a sneak peak at the cover and contents of 'Plant Perspectives' issue 2.1, forthcoming in April. @plantperspectives.bsky.social #plantstudies #envhum

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Feb 18

We’re delighted to be working with the International Network for Tea Studies via our journal 'Plant Perspectives', in support of an interesting online seminar (19th March): ‘Connecting to the Plant Wisdom of the Arctic’; details attached. #plantstudies #tea #arctic @plantperspectives.bsky.social

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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · Jan 29

Have you been enjoying the academic articles, art, reviews, and poetry from our first two issues? Then read this thread, donate and/or share with your network to keep Plant Perspectives #OpenAccess

Please share widely! As always, find the link in our bio 🌿

The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Jan 29

We need your help to spread the word about a new initiative around one of our journals! #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social #envhum #envhist

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