We believe that nature’s best medicine grows in your own backyard, as these remedies are best suited, customized, for the health conditions faced by the local community. This belief is reinforced by the biodiversity of the natural world where different bioregions each have their own unique medicine chest of plants for universally common ailments.
Today’s marketplace is crowded with dietary and herbal supplements that are derived from chemical sources or grown in substandard environmental conditions. We believe a product can only be truly healthful if it does no harm to health of the people or the environment that it interacted with in its making. And if the ingredients of the product start out poisoned, either by pesticides in the soil or fumigation by government customs offices when crossing international borders – then the entire product will carry with it the bad with the good, counteracting any overall benefit to the consumer.
We believe that to truly be nourishing and healthful, our products’ ingredients must be grown sustainably, in each plant’s optimal growing conditions, and harvested with a consciousness to optimize the constituents of the plant that contain the medicinal properties (e.g., handle the fresh leaves of lemon balm as little as possible to avoid damage to the medicinal volatile oils housed in this part of the plant). By sharing a community with our regional farmers, we are able to observe, engage with and audit the farms in order to maintain the highest quality standards. This is the next best quality assurance to growing the plants ourselves! Our farmers work with us to ensure that our ingredients are cultivated using sustainable methods and harvested at peak potency and nutritional ripeness.