Helpful Resources

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1. useful for herbalists

2. generally interesting about plants.

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Companies that grow, sell, and/or teach about growing medicinal plants

  • Ballek's Garden Center, native plants, herbs, and other gardening resources, East Haddam CT

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    BALLEK'S GARDEN CENTER

  • Harlequin Garden’s, Boulder, CO
    Sustainable Nursery & Garden Center

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    HARLEQUIN GARDEN’S

  • Strictly Medicinal Seeds, Williams, OR, and Online

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    STRICTLY MEDICINAL SEEDS

  • MASA Seed Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization based in Boulder, CO. They provide organically grown produce from their own “Regionally Adapted” seeds!

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    MASA SEED FOUNDATION

  • Seed Savers Exchange, Decorah, Iowa, and Online - They collect, grow, and share heirloom seeds and plants.

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    SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE

Ethical Companies that sell herbal products

Blogs and Podcasts on Herbalism

  • 7Song's exceptional blog

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    7 SONG'S

  • herbcraft, seeds and stems, jim macdonalds writings

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    HERBCRAFT

Conservation

  • For the research, education, and conservation of native medicinal plants, fungi, and their habitats.

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    UNITED PLANT SAVERS

  • About plants, pollinating insects, and gardening

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    POLLINATORS

Botany

  • Botany in a Day, Thomas Elpel - buy this direct from Tom, rather than the soulless entity that is amazon. Its not much more:)

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    BOTANY IN A DAY

New England Botany

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Southwest Botany

  • A Database of the Wildflowers of Colorado

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    COLORADO WILDFLOWERS

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  • Colorado Flora, 2 volume, eastern and western slope, Bill Weber

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  • Flora of Colorado, Jennifer Ackerfield

Medicinal Preparations

Materia Medica, History and Ethnobotany Links

Specific Health Issues

Other Alternative Health Links

  • Fertility Awareness Method, Toni Wenschler, free charts and articles


  • Science-Based Medicine, a website on issues and controversy in medicine

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    SCIENCE-BASED MEDICINE, A WEBSITE ON ISSUES AND CONTROVERSY IN MEDICINE

Recommended Reading- Herbal Textbooks

Wild Edibles

  • The Foragers Wild Harvest, Samuel Thayer

    WEBSITE LINK:
    THE FORAGERS WILD HARVEST

  • Identifying and Harvesting Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild and Not-So-Wild Places, Steve "Wildman" Brill

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    WILDMAN STEVE BRILL

  • The New Wildcrafted Cuisine, Pascal Baudar

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    THE NEW WILDCRAFTED CUISINE

  • Wildcrafted Fermentation, Pascal Baudar

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    WILDCRAFTED FERMENTATION

  • Mountain States Foraging, Briana Wiles

    WEBSITE LINK:
    MOUNTAIN STATES FORAGING

Badass Herb Schools by Region

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