Botanical Tales: Where Science Meets Imagination

Virtual Saturday & Sunday, August 2-3

10am-11:30am; for students 14+

corn, roses, apples, and clover? They have existed in stories long before science was named. The stories may, in fact be a science of their own. We will search for the places where science meets stories. This is a research workshop that incorporates botanical and ecological studies with a series of myths and fairy tales from all over the world that incorporate plants. Why did these stories use these plants? How does the botanical or ecological science inform the mythology around this plant?