Svetlana PoltavetsSvetlana Poltavets graduated from the St. Petersburg State University, specializing in biology and writing a thesis on this topic. She has been fascinated by nature since she was a child because her grandmother often told her about the plants and tres in their garden and nearby forests. When she visited her grandma they often together went to the forests, groves, fields. From a young age, she used to go to the woods with her parents or neighbours for edible mushrooms in the Carpathians Lowland forests in Ukraine. Love for nature had passed on to Svetlana through several generations from her great-great-grandmother, who knew plants and fungi well and its usefulness for health. Read More Read Less