Mary Ellen Camire, PhD, is past president of the Institute of Food Technologists and a professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Maine, Orono. Chris Kilham is an instructor of ethnobotany at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and founder of Medicine Hunter, an enterprise that explores plant-based medicines.
You’ve plucked them and chucked them into your trash or compost pile. You’ve cursed their very existence. You’ve racked your…
