The Milkweed Lands (Book) – Author Signed Copy

The Milkweed Lands is a meditation on the existence of a wild plant in our current time-scale – both through a full year growing season – and in the context of our Earth’s fragile contemporary conditions for sustaining life. This is a book of ecology, the relationship networks between plants and animals, fungi and microbial life, all interconnected with a single North American plant genus: Asclepias, the milkweeds. Richly illustrated by acclaimed botanical illustrator Beverly Duncan, and authored by Northwest Meadowscapes co-founder Eric Lee-Mäder, The Milkweed Lands dives deeply into the well-known relationships of milkweeds and monarch butterflies, but also goes further, into the rhizosphere – the life-rich root zone of prairie soils – as well as into the atmosphere with aeroplankton – the small forms of life that travel the Earth on high elevation air currents -- and many more places where these plants connect with other forms of life. Beginning with a brief ethnobotanical history o