VEGAN BOTANY

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Vegan Botany is an informational website providing information for plant care requirements, natural herbalism, gardening advice, and other related outdoor advice. One day, Vegan Botany aims to achieve managing an organic plant nursery including a collection of native, endangered, and exotic plant varieties. Our passion is to share and preserve the knowledge of how to nurture plants. Edible and organic gardens are more desirable than simple turfgrass lawns and ornamental plants (which may be toxic to people and animals!). Humanity has the duty to care for the Earth and it’s dwindling ecosystems that wildlife depends on.

My grandmother (Mema) and grandfather (Pepa, rest in peace), both love to garden. I have loved playing in the dirt as a child, though it was never demonstrated to me the sacred principle of the life force behind a single seed and how precious it is for a young person to plant a single seed to watch it grow over the years, eventually turning into a massive tree.

I love planting a seed and the excitement of discovering an unfurling sprout. Keeping communities green and providing the knowledge for future generations to understand how to support themselves is very important. How entertaining, the challenge of learning the vastly different environmental requirements of different plants, to better know how to support them and to teach people proper care for plants to increase plant survivability rate.

I worked at both an organic plant nursery and a conventional plant nursery that used common industrial fertilizers and pesticides. Phenomenon such as seeing bees dead on the side of the road by fields sprayed with pesticides and seeing a rat with a disintegrated jaw (presumable culprit chewing holes in chemical fertilizer bags and eating fertilizer) drink reclaimed water from sprinklers made me realize how opposed I am to chemical usage in the garden. My mother had purchased carrots that were not organic, and as a vegan after taking one bite from one of those carrots I tasted all the bad chemicals from the fertilizers, and implored my mom to only buy organic carrots.

My interest in gardening peaked while playing Project Zomboid, a zombie apocalypse survival video game. In the game, the player is desperate to survive by searching for building materials, defensive weapons, and consumables found across the city which eventually has both electricity and water shut off. In game, seeds are sown as an alternative to looting houses for food. Many of my in-game crops failed due to pests, malnutrition, and disease. I was vegetarian at the time (now vegan), and thought “What if an apocalypse really happens, and there are no grocery stores?”. Regularly keeping a garden provides fruits and vegetables for events such as COVID-19, war, and environmental collapse.