Plant Allies Network (PAN)

Plants and Healers International (PHI) is building a Plant Allies Network (PAN) map.

The tag line is “Connecting People, Plants and Healers”

This will represent a unique online resource that connects people, plants, and healers all over the globe. This database will be searchable and mostly powered using the wiki model of crowd sourcing.

Description:

Map based resources for exchanging information, skills, and opportunities

Dynamic map for exploring opportunities and resources for education, work and connections among the global community of plant enthusiasts and healers.

We are looking to fill a hole online in linking people looking to learn about plants with folks willing and wanting to teach.

Opening botanically focused pathways to young people is a particular goal. We also envision building connections between grassroots practitioners and institutions for peer to peer learning and collaboration.

Frank Cook’s excellent networking ability has inspired us to keep connecting the dots between the amazing plant people and ecotypes of the world in such a way.

This project will facilitate alliances that enhance the impact of efforts to transition to a more sustainable world.

Some examples of categories we are preparing to feature are below:

1.  Schools of sustainable agriculture, ethnobotany, and healing
2. Ethnobotanical ecotour guides for plant inventories, walks, wild foods foraging
3. Plant lists (initially handwritten ones from Frank Cook that have been scanned) and electronic ones
4.  Herbalists, midwives, shaman and other natural healers
5. Internships, apprenticeships, farm stays, and job opportunities
6. Annual Events calendar
7. Botanically focused video
8. Plant uses
9. Plant photos
10. Botanical gardens and Arboretums
11. Ecovillages and other communities of Ecoliving

Below you can see a map that features a number of places Frank visited a taught at in North America, Costa Rica, England and Zambia. More locations will be featured in the coming weeks and months.

This page also features a host of prexisting mapping projects that feature similar endeavors and may help serve as models. ultimately we hope to unify these different data sets into one map that also has a wiki/crowd sourcing model component.

• Shareable global community mapping project
• Botanical Gardens of The world via Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)
• Sebastian Stemmann’s List of Botanical Gardens in many languages
• Japanese Gardens from all around the world.
• List of Foraging Instructors across North America and some in Europe.
• Farms and retreat centers in Costa Rica specifically.
• Earthskills Gatherings and Food Forests.
• Map of Common Vision Community Orchards in California.
• Willing Workers On Organic Farms (WWOOF).
• Map of Ethnobiologically focused University and College programs.
• Maps of North American Ecovillages.
• Map of Global Ecovillages.
• Map of European Ecovillages.
• American Herbalists Guild map of practising herbalists.
• Herb Rally guide to practicing herbalists in the USA.
• Plant Healer Magazine Herbal Education Guide and Schools Directory.
• United Plants Savers list of plant sanctuaries.
• United Plant Savers list of Sacred Seed Sanctuaries around the world.
• Worldwide Map of Herbariums from the New York Botanical Garden.
• Interactive Global Invasive Species Maps.
• Biodiverseed Map of Seed saving resources: i.e. swaps, banks, lending libraries as well as Farmer’s Markets, Community Kitchens, Food Coops, Community Gardens and Sustainability Organizations.
• Database of ISA Certified Arborists for North America.
• Los Angeles Fruit resources courtesy of Fallen Fruit.
• Urban Foraging Map courtesy of Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP).
• Maryland Food System Map courtesy of Center for a Livable Future’.
• Birding group mapping resources.
• Free camping sites app for North America.
• The Plant Atlas is a digital resource for the floras of Florida, New York, Alabama, Indiana, and Clarendon Parish Jamaica.
• A map of fruit trees/shrubs around the city of Atlanta.
• Map of edibles throughout the Netherlands! Text is in touch though entries also have pictures.
• Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy Map of Protected Lands.
• Saatchi Global Art Gallery Guide.
• National Ecological Observatory network.
• Rogue Valley Sustainable Treasures
• Asheville Edibles.
• Piney Wood Atlas Artist residencies Desert Southwest.
• Piney Wood Atlas Artist residencies Desert Pacific Northwest.
• Map of how places have changed on Earth over the last 750 million years.