Botany of Desire
Based on author Michael Pollan's best-selling book, The Botany of Desire explores the natural history of four plants — the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato — and the corresponding human desires — sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and controlling nature — that link their destinies to our own. This two-hour documentary begins in Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the potato fields of Idaho and Peru to the apple orchards of New England, from a medical marijuana hot house to the tulip markets of Amsterdam, exploring how plants have used our reliable yearnings to their evolutionary advantage.
For more, watch this 2008 Bill Moyers Journal interview with author Michael Pollan, who explains how America's food policies affect larger issues from global warming to healthcare to homeland security.
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