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Zines

Collection at Pratt Institute Libraries and general information about Zines

Edible, Medicinal, & Utilitarian Plants

Even those who live in the crush and clamor of cities can find a huge variety of edible, medicinal, and otherwise useful herbs among the plants commonly called "weeds" by the uninformed. 

Mushroom Zine

Michelle shares their new hobby of observing and identifying mushrooms and how it has changed their relationship with nature. They discuss mushrooms' calming effect, variety, and medicinal properties.

The Basil Plant: A Comic

A feminist minicomic about a woman attempting to cope with her anxieties using various strategies (eating a pear in the sun, growing a basil plant). She discovers the source of her anxiety is being a woman. After being magically transformed into a man and peeing on the world, her anxieties disappear. 

topographic map with animals and plants

Wildlifoodin: Adventures in Eatting [sic]

A traditional 'zine' from a resifdent of the Wildroots Homestead in North Carolinak, illustrated with drawings of bird species and edible plants. It serves both as a memoir and a manual (how to build a debris shelter, how to correctly gut a deer). 

Radical Mycology

Practical manual with instructions for using mushrooms in cooking, as dyestuff, in homemade medicines, and to make paper. Also includes wild mushroom identification information, a list of recommended mushroom reading, a glossary of mushroom terminology, and many detailed photographs, drawings, and diagrams.

Radical Domesticity

Thrifty and clever D.I.Y. solutions to cleaning and organizing a home. Issue one contains a table on how to paint exterior surfaces, information on how to fold a fitted sheet, cleaning recipes, and a recipe for vegan mug cakes.

honeycomb printed on a yellow envelope

For the Love of Bees

VIDEO: full book
For The Love of Bees is a handmade mini artist book by Caroline Paquita. It is a celebration of honeybees and an homage to colonies lost over the years due to ongoing environmental changes.

sign in the woods saying nature trail no bikes

Nature Trail No Bikes

A series of black and white photographs of a nature trail with super-imposed text.

line drawing of strange looking plant

Lump Nubbin Coloring Book

A Lump Nubbin is a small, lumpy, painted sculpture made from paper pulp. Sometimes it looks like it is sprouting, leaning, bending, or even laughing. Lump Nubbins are often very colorful, and they have their own names. Here in this book, you can color your own Lump Nubbins however you can imagine. 


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