Contents MARCH 2020 * VOL. 76, NO. 3 GEORGIA MAGAZINE 38 PAUL LEAVY UGA LATIN AMERICAN ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN 75 32 16 Back to the future Civil War-era plant lore may hold the answer to drug-resistant bacteria. By Tom Oder March is National Kidney Month. By Victoria Scharf DeCastro AMBER LANIER NAGLE 20 Care for your kidneys THE access 26 Improving to care Volunteer medical clinics help fill the health care gap. By Amber Lanier Nagle 26 HEALTH 32 High-tech health care ISSUE New developments put Georgians on the cutting edge. By Carolyn Crist On the cover Cassandra Quave, a medical ethnobotanist at Emory University in Atlanta, evaluates the chemical makeup of plants used to treat infectious disease in traditional medicine. (Photo by Louis Tonsmeire.) 4 6 8 10 14 24 MAILBOX PICTURE THIS? GEORGIA NEWS CALENDAR OF EVENTS CURRENTS GEORGIA'S ENERGY OUTLOOK 25 CURIOUS GEORGIA The School Bus Graveyard 34 AROUND GEORGIA The Georgia Conservancy sponsors outdoor adventures 38 GEORGIA GARDENS The power of plants 42 GEORGIA COOKS Goodbye, gluten! 46 HOMETOWN HERO Daryl Roberts and his team are rebuilding lives www.georgiamagazine.org 03_TOC_0320.indd 1 3 2/13/20 4:17 PMhttp://www.georgiamagazine.org