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Cultivation

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Learn more about herbs and the various aspects affecting them by going through our deep dives.

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wild harvesting in Poland

Wild Harvesters

Contextualizing Questions and Answers Meet the Wild Harvesters SHI travelled to Poland to meet wild...

Person harvesting echinacea, Growers

Growers

Contextualizing Questions and Answers Q : How many herbs are cultivated? A: Recent research has found...

Wild harvesting jatamansi in Nepal

Wild Harvester Stories

Wild harvesters are the backbone of the herbal products industry, yet they’re facing real problems...

Small group discussion

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Soil Carbon Initiative: A Conversation with Tom Newmark

Costa Rica

This video takes you on a journey through medicinal herb farming practices that are helping...

Harvesting jatamansi in NW Nepal

Nepal

Exploring medicinal plant projects in Nepal By Ann Armbrecht, PhD I first visited Nepal in...

Doselva and Gaia Herbs Partnership

Nicaragua: Doselva and Gaia Herbs

Producing Regeneratively Farmed Turmeric and Ginger Sustainable Herbs Program Case Study Series #1 Rural Development...

Teaching Guide

Plantain at Oshala Farm, Oregon To understand the energies of herbs means to know when...

Wild harvesting in Appalachia

Appalachia

Blue cohosh Goldenseal American ginseng Black cohosh Alongside the fur trade, ginseng was a major...

Issues in Fair Trade and Equity: someone stoops to examine another's work while sitting on the ground crosslegged

Relationships and Sourcing

What’s At Stake? Urban migration is considered one of the greatest threats to the future...

Appalachian woods

Biodiversity and Wild Herbs

Challenges to Wild Harvesting: Cultural and ecological diversity are linked. Nowhere is this more clear...

Quality and Sourcing

Quality and Sourcing

Where plants come from and how they are handled along the way matters to the...

Purchasing: baskets full of products

Purchasing Deep

What to Look For: It is overwhelming to stand in a supplement aisle trying to...

2011 photo of signing ceremony (5-year letter of intent) at the 1st panda friendly branding workshop in Chengdu (where the first version of the panda friendly standards was drafted) – left to right, Jerry Wu (Draco Natural Products), Huizhou Tang (Pingwu Shuijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Materials Cooperative), and Josef Brinckmann (Traditional Medicinals, Inc.)

Standardization

In the United States, dietary supplements don’t require chemical standardization, and there’s no regulatory definition...