Sentences with phrase «of wild plants»

Another grew up in the country and knows all kinds of wild plants and how to find their way around in the woods.

Your food supply on a given day depends on the success of the most recent hunt and the seasonal availability of wild plant foods.

With the loss of so many of our wild places and their wild flora, garden - worthy forms of wild plants are even thinner on the ground.

This information could be useful in designing general harvesting plans for the thousands of wild plants harvested worldwide.

This means choosing present - day foods that approach the nutritional content of wild plants and game — our original diet.

The Sampled Red List Index for Plants indicates that 22 per cent of all wild plant species face extinction, comparable to the figure for mammals (21 per cent) and higher than that for birds (12 per cent).

Goulson predicts the giant bumblebee species could be extinct within a few years — and adds that there could be wider ecological implications, as a lot of wild plants in the Andes will lose their main pollinator.

«Almost 90 percent of wild plants are dependent on insect pollination.

Preagricultural diets — which essentially consisted of wild plants, wild animals, and wild fish — varied considerably, depending on location, season, hunting and gathering skills, available tools, and so on.

It also provides a basis for the value of the wild plants and animals expressed by many contemporary ecologists.

3 Detox Blackberry Juice Recipes For Healthy Body Blackberries are several types of wild plants from the family of roses that bloom from June to August.

Attempts at domestication of the wild plants have led to the development of the commercial chile piquín, which grows under cultivation in Mexico and Texas (some wild forms have escaped).

Declines in populations of pollinators now threaten both the yields of major food crops and the survival of wild plant species.

Examples of wild plants include dandelions, daisies, buttercups, nettles and ivy.

We believe this is accomplished by actually spending time outdoors, with our hands in the dirt and feet on the ground, planting trees, clearing brush, finding frogs in a creek, making a meal out of wild plants, learning how to turn a piece of wood into an instrument, or creating natural dyes with berries.

Then they did extensive crossbreeding of these wild plants with domestic ones.

Biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that humans are hardwired for biophilia, or a love of wild plants and animals, and that putting them back in touch with the environment could resurrect that feeling.

The origin of many flowers in the garden is rather obscure: some can be presumed to be simple genetic variants of wild plants, while others are the result of hybridisation of original wild species.

Archaeologists can date that switch by distinguishing remains of wild plants and animals from those of domesticated ones in prehistoric garbage dumps.

By putting dirt from the house floors and rubbish heaps in her flotation tank, Near has found that the residents of Çatalhöyük were energetic collectors of wild plants as well.

While farmers concentrate on high - carbohydrate crops like rice and potatoes, the mix of wild plants and animals in the diets of surviving hunter - gatherers provides more protein and a bettter balance of other nutrients.

At Ohalo II, however, the team found traces of 143 kinds of wild plant seeds, including ancestors of wheat and barley.

Legacy from our ancestors — limited diversity «In the domestication process for agriculture, our Neolithic ancestors domesticated a rather small portion of wild plants that had around them,» said Fowler.

In a strange twist the researchers found that the diets of these more ornate birds remained largely composed of wild plants and insects, suggesting that they were left to roam free and never domesticated.

But residue analyses on pots found there may explain the mystery, as Peyronel and his colleagues described in a paper last year: The researchers found traces of wild plants often used for medicine, such as poppy for opium to dull pain, heliotrope to fight viral infections, and chamomile to reduce inflammation.

The research team constructed a new evolutionary tree of a major family of wild plant species, taking the distance between species as a proxy for plant trait diversity.

Declines in the pollination of wild plants may lead to increases in the population of plants that do not rely on pollinators, and pollinator declines would lead to decreases in crop yields, Fuentes noted.

If such a fertility control technology — which has come under fire in farming for fear seed firms will exploit it — is proven effective, it could open the door to many varieties of wild plants, including weedy grasses, to be genetically engineered for use in energy applications like biomass and next - generation biofuels without fear of invasiveness.

But the over-harvesting of these wild plants has great ecological consequences.

The Paleolithic and Paleo Diet Recipes (also popularly referred to as the caveman diet) is a nutritional plan based on the ancient diet of paleolithic man that consisted namely of wild plants and animals.

Elements such as high intake of wild plants, absence of smoking, legume intake, conscientiousness, gratitude, tannin - rich beverages and a handful of other qualitative markers are associated with these zones.

They are made by infusion of wild plants and flowers from a certain area in England.

Flower remedies, or flower essences, are herbal infusions made from the flowering part of wild plants, and are used to address the emotional and mental realms of one's health.

The three types of kale that we have become familiar with in the produce section of today's grocery stores are actually domesticated versions of wild plants that took farmers hundreds of years to develop.

The paleo diet — also referred to as the caveman diet, the Stone Age diet and the hunter - gatherer diet — is a way of obtaining nutrition based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various human species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic era.

I add a handful of wild plants or organic produce, such as arugula, nettle, spinach, thyme, cilantro, parsley, etc. to a large bowl.

Because dogs spend so much time outside and have little awareness of the dangers of wild plants, they're far more likely to ingest toxic mushrooms than humans.

She states, «All the senses are engaged as I pocket smooth stones, sketch, smell the thyme and clover, taste the tartness of wild plants and listen to the sounds of nature as well as its silence.

Data gathered over 145 years from 302 peaks shows that the count of wild plants that have colonized the highest zones has increased five times faster than during a comparable decade 50 years ago.

«A true Paleo diet might be a great option: very lean, pure meats, lots of wild plants,» said one expert — quickly adding, however, that duplicating such a regimen in modern times would be difficult.»

Pollinators like bees are a critical part of the life cycle for almost 1/3 of our food crops and 90 percent of wild plants.

By late June, the organic fields had 50 to 70 percent more species of wild plants than the conventional fields, with significantly more weeds and biomass.

If there were no more bees, 75 % of all economic plants, fruits and vegetables, 90 % of all wild plants and all forage crops would be affected.

Dr Phelps said, «We first visited some of these wild plant markets in Thailand almost 10 years ago, and were amazed by the volume and number of species being traded then.