Colorful, diverse crops of potatoes ward off damage from insects and diseases.
If you’ve ever wondered why your plants do what they do and what their roles are in our lives, author Michael Pollan suggested some answers in The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World, his 2001 best selling book.
On Oct. 28, a two-hour PBS documentary with the same name will air at 8 p.m. on WFYI-TV, Channel 20 (check local listings for times in your city). The documentary illustrates Pollan’s fascinating theories on how and why plants do what they do as part of their survival.
As he did in his book, Pollan focuses on four plants in the documentary, exploring their attributes and human attraction.
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