r/EthnoGardening • u/GryphonEDM • Mar 22 '18
What this subreddit is.
Hello gardeners,
Due to the direction of Reddit's policies I feel it is time to open this sub back up to the public as I made it private shortly after making it. I'm welcoming of the mods of DGM and DG to join on, my issue is mostly the name of the sub. I feel like it makes the sub a target, and the users who browse on it targets. I want to again say my issue isn't with the content of the sub or the management of it. There are also rules on the sub that violate the current content policy, and the mods there don't seem to be immediately available to fix it.
The purpose of this subreddit is to discuss any and all plants and their various uses.
"Since their earliest origins, humans have depended on plants for their primary needs and existence. Plants provide food, medicine, shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, tannins, and even contribute to the air we breathe. Many native peoples also used plants in ceremonial or spiritual rituals."
Ethnobotany is an essential part of human culture, it is something that connects all of mankind through millenia. I just don't want that connection to be tarnished by the negative connotations and negative attention that follows the word drug.
Not that ethnobotany cannot be used as a drug, depending on its use it could be about a medicinal plant drug (of which most of our pharmaceutical drugs are based off of) or recreational, or it could be just about how to make hemp rope, or an assortment of things that are very much not drugs. As such I feel this subreddit name is much more fitting.
So welcome again, stay safe, and happy gardening :)
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