Over the next year, we’ll be featuring many of our International Herb Symposium sponsors. These folks are part of the community that makes the IHS possible, and we’re excited to start off the series with From Nature With Love. Thank you to Marketing Manager Wendy Robbins for telling us a little about this company! UPS: Let’s start with the basics. Could you tell us a little about what you make, and what your mission is? …
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The Forest Farmers Handbook: A Beginners Guide to Growing and Marketing At-Risk Forest Herbs by United Plant Savers & Rural Action If you’re reading this, you’re probably interested in forest farming. And if not, perhaps you should be—forest farming can provide economic opportunities to the forest landowner or land steward while also providing significant environmental benefits, such as preserving forest cover and enhancing biodiversity through the reintroduction and establishment of new populations of at-risk forest …
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Check out the latest blog on Herbal Reality written by Susan Leopold, PhD! It was early this spring in 2021 when visiting a friend in southern Virginia that I came across a rare encounter with a small colony of just emerging False Unicorn root (Chamaelirium luteum). This sacred fertility herb was thriving in the woods nestled throughout a graveyard of rusty old farm equipment. Hiding in plain site along a winding creek there were about 20 …
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The Healing Forest Theme It feels like during the pandemic time started to tick a bit faster as we shape-shifted our energy to tackle new challenges and opportunities. The theme of this year’s Journal is the Healing Forest, and in tandem, the theme of the International Herb Symposium was also a deep immersion into the dynamic ways forests heal the planet. The keynote of the IHS was Diana Beresford Kroeger talking about the medicinal aerosols …
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