UPS Videos

Botanical Sanctuary Network members discuss the current status of medicinal plants and ways we can give back to the plants. Featuring ethnobotanist & UPS Botanical Sanctuary steward Linda Black Elk, UPS Executive Director Susan Leopold, UPS Founder Rosemary Gladstar, and UPS Board Member Emily Ruff. United Plant Savers’ mission is to protect native medicinal plants …

Read moreUnited Plant Savers @ 2017 International Herb Symposium

Do plants need saving? Yes. Why? Susan Leopold, executive director of United Plant Savers, unitedplantsavers.org. shares reasons why we are in danger of losing many plant species, through loss of habitat, overharvesting, non-sustainable farming practices. “United Plant Savers’ mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat while …

Read moreHolistic Nature of Us: Saving Plants, Preserving Species

Kathleen Maier, president of the board of United Plant Savers, tells us why she feels that its important to consider the safety and security of the plants when supplying herbs and botanicals. To learn more about who we support, visit our site: Mountain Rose Herbs

Highlights from the 2017 “Future of Ginseng and Forest Botanicals Symposium” featuring short interviews with a variety of perspectives from harvesters, growers, herbalists, industry, and ecologists…… We have a rich botanical legacy and how we choose to steward our forests now will have a tremendous impact as we look to the future..

How do we connect the dots our health to that of the ecosystem- how do we restore balance in both!

Susan Leopold featured as a guest on the Emerald Planet… speaking about the mission of United Plant Savers…. and rise in herbalism and environmental consciousness…..

Spring and the birth of the center for medicinal plant conservation.

Why are we digging up the last of the sacred fertility…..