Plants · People · Place

Every plant holds
a world of relations.

Roots and Relations Lab explores how plants become part of human lives—through food, healing, ritual, memory, and the everyday work of knowing a place.

Created by Sammie Yang, a high-school senior, this project is rooted in fieldwork carried out in Danba Zhonglu Village, Sichuan, Tibetan Plateau, over the past two summers. Its essays bring plant portraits, recorded accounts, and field reflections into a conversation about people, place, and mountain forests.