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Austin Chronicle Beverage Issue – Biology Professor Brings Field Expertise to Craft of Botanical Foraging by Veronica Meewes, October 2021

“What a beauty!” Molly Cummings says with a sparkle in her eye.

She could just as easily be referring to the expansive, cloud-mottled West Texas sky or the undulating purple Davis mountains surrounding us. But she’s gazing directly up at a juniper tree – one she’s named Eve because it was the very first one to give her berries – and she is about to scale the roof of the house right below it to forage some more.