Under The Banyan

Stories about us and nature

Search

Search for:

A strangler fig (left) and a banyan (right)

Search for:

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 4,360 other followers

Email Address:

I am the author of 'Ladders To Heaven: How fig trees shaped our history, fed our imaginations and can enrich our future' (Unbound, 2016). My book was published in the US and Canada as 'Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees' (Chelsea Green, 2016).
Read a summary and advance praise from: Annie Proulx, Deborah Blum, Michael Pollan, Sy Montgomery, Simran Sethi, David George Haskell and others.

Blessed be the proofreaders twitter.com/RamsesThePigeo… 4 days ago
RT @mrdanwalker: I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since Gary Speed’s death. I hope this helps someone… https://t.co/FeQlkfBBzW 4 days ago
RT @FigsBook: For more information and reviews, see: underthebanyan.blog/my-book/ https://t.co/SUHzEZHUqZ 4 days ago
For anyone interested in science, religion, nature, travel, history, mythology, food, wildlife, rainforests — or si… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 days ago
A haunting, personal account by Moroccan journalist Khalid Bencherif inthesetimes.com/article/morocc… 6 days ago

Meat still missing from national climate change commitments
Will 30×30 reboot conservation or entrench old problems?
New recipe needed to make food systems better for people and planet
From a fig tree of antiquity to hundreds of interconnected artworks created in a pandemic
A prescription for our sick planet
Scientists warn of rising denial of extinction and biodiversity loss
How to stop your pension fund from fuelling climate change and deforestation
The coronavirus backlash against bats is a bad idea

Follow Following
- Under The Banyan
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.