My absolute favourite wild edible and medicinal plant has to be Nettle. This wild edible is a super food in terms of nutrition!

Want to learn more about the medicinal and nutritional value of the common weeds in your garden? Today Tracy Armbruster - our weed enthusiast – kicks off her series for all of us to learn together.

Ian McCallum talks about our profound connection to the wilderness, and our place in it – an instinct we have tuned out. A renowned doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, wilderness guide and poet; Ian uses his insight to connect the dots between human psychology and the role our environment plays in our internal make up.

As if making food from light were not impressive enough, it may be time to add another advanced skill to the botanical repertoire: the ability to perform — at least at the molecular level — arithmetic division.

Would you like to spend time in an eco-village and forest reserve and develop your skill as writer at the same time? Here is your chance to take time out of your busy life and feed your soul.

Come and learn a bit about the amazing plant world… Let Tracy guide you through the abundance and healing that nature has to offer.

In the last 100 years we seem to have moved away from nature and her medicinal plants. In our never ending quest to search for new cures and remedies, man has now been forced to return to nature.

Two hiking tourists were airlifted off Table Mountain in separate incidents after the sweltering heat got the better of them on Tuesday.

This year the theme of the day is ‘Wetlands take care of water’ and the aim of the day is to draw attention to wetland habitats and the vital role they play in the environment and the human economy.

Raptor enthusiasts across the world were overjoyed and relieved to learn that a migratory female Amur Falcon Falco amurensis finally reached her wintering grounds at Newcastle in Kwa-Zulu-Natal on the 10th of January 2013 after an eventful 14 500km journey from the species’ breeding grounds in northern China and Mongolia.

One of the most stunning natural events our atmosphere offers us is the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights. Waves of color dance across the sky during the night, displaying different colors and patterns. But what makes this happen?

Sleep in sturdy tents with carpeted floors and thick mattresses, eat heartily from the gas and electricity supplied camp kitchen and clean up in the tented hot water showers and flush loos... and that's just the beginning.

Every morning, I wake up to the sunrise over the sea and go for an early morning walk in Burman Bush. Upon entering this nature reserve, the sweet scent of the many plants tickle your nostrils and your ears pick up the many different bird calls.

I am amazed to see the interest in our swimming pool conversion into a natural habitat for wildlife, which might also include ourselves, if needs be. Some readers would also like to put their pools to better use, so I will share my learning as we go along.

"It is hard to care about something if you can’t recognise or name it, so learning to name what you spot in nature is important.” So said Carmel Mbizo during the launch of iSpot, an online biodiversity application where all citizens from taxonomists to the domestic gardener can participate in biodiversity recording, monitoring and indentification.

“If the bulldozers come my wife must look for another husband because I will fight to the end…”

Over the centuries, nature had to overcome every obstacle that we humans are also faced with today. How to transport liquids, colour things, cure illnesses, fix objects to all surfaces - to name but a few.

This is the title of a comprehensive and unusual gardening book and an all-round treasure for the environmentally conscious gardener.

Deforestation is just one of many crises facing the world. It is closely related to environmental crises such as climate change. Modern human relationships with nature are profoundly dysfunctional and, on the current trajectory, can only lead to a global ecological catastrophe.

“There is another reality that we can personally discover....we are not alone," says Michael Harner.