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Our goal is to improve the quality of foods available in America. We believe that we can make great strides toward this goal by encouraging more people to make better food choices. We’re sharing the information on these pages to make it easier for you to choose healthier products.
Horizon Herbs (Richo Cech)
We are growers of organically certified medicinal herb seed and plants here in Southern Oregon. We offer an extensive collection of organically certified seeds from the new harvest and plants grown on our own farm, including indigenous herb seeds from the Native American, Ayurvedic and Chinese traditions. We also grow or collect seed of significant medicinal and aromatic herbs from the deserts, forests, mountains, plains and shores of North America, Central and South America, Russia, China, Tibet, India, Pakistan, the Middle East, Japan, Europe, the Mediterranean basin, Africa, Australia, the Canary Islands, New Zealand and beyond. From our rootsy and organic greenhouse and shadehouses, we offer plants of annuals, herbaceous perennials and woody perennials, including common medicinals, cover crops, nitrogen fixers, shelterbelt and wildlife favorites, dye plants, medicinal trees, fruits, tubers, vines, roots, corms, bulbs, and water plants as well as sacred herbs. Look here also for our own growing guide (click below!), books and other writings with information regarding the germination, growth and environmental requirements of medicinal herbs. We dedicate our services to all beings. In the words of the Dalai Lama, "Diversity is both beautiful and necessary."
Southeast Ecological Design - Kevin Ward
Our Mission is to design and create efficient living systems for homes and businesses with the stability, resilienct, and vitality of natural ecosystems. To practice and educate the ethics of resource conservation, community responsibility, environmental preservation, and healthy living. SEED is an ecological general contracting company. We are a collaborative team of builders, landscapers, and permaculture designers organized to approach land use, building, and development holistcally and sensibly. Our commitment to environmental and social sustainability combined with a focus on artistic and creative design is aimed at improving the quality of life for people and the earth. Located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, we are committed to preserving our surroundings.
The Matrona - Whapio
At The Matrona, we believe that birth is a sacred and profound experience, and we teach midwifery as a Sacred Art. We believe that childbearing is a time of transformation and empowerment for parents, and the work of the midwife is to return birth to the family. Our house is dedicated to serving women and families by providing opportunities to access knowledge of Women's Healing Arts. We believe that the knowledge of birth and midwifery is among those arts, and belongs to all individuals and all families. We educate women to be competent, confident, compassionate and caring midwives and doulas who serve families in the traditional ways.
MoonBranch Botanicals (Robin Suggs)
At MoonBranch Botanicals, our philosophy centers on the belief that plants produced in their native habitats consistently yield a higher quality product. Through our sustainable sourcing methods involving the responsible cultivation and wild harvesting of botanicals within these habitats, we strive to consistently supply our customer with the highest quality botanicals available. This is the foundation of our approach to satisfying and exceeding expectations relevant to consistency, potency, and proper species identification.
Raven's Nest Herbals LLC is a supplier of herbs, spices, teas, incense, essential & fragrance oils, soaps, henna, herbal bath products & hand crafted gifts. Our specialties include: Custom scents for our fragrance products - you choose a scent you like and we'll make it for you in a fragrance oil, body oil, bath salts, incense or potpourri!; Herbal pet products; Original scents created exclusively by Raven's Nest Herbals™ ;Location of hard-to-find herbs.
Sheri Winston (Sheri Winston)
A Womancare Practitioner and Teacher of Wholistic Sexuality for Everyone & Womancraft, that is, a healer, counselor and educator. My perspective is wholistic in that I believe we are each an inseparable, unique whole being. Although we can talk about being made up of our bodies, our minds and our spirits, I believe that it actually is impossible to separate them. A truly wholistic perspective also includes not just the individual but everyone and everything that they are in relationship with. So a wholistic view of any one individual includes their partner or partners, their family, their community, as well as their cultural milieu and indeed, the whole planet.
