I am dedicated to supporting the ecology of our planet by using farming and wildcrafting practices that increase the health and abundance of our local ecosystems. This includes increasing perennial and annual herbal species and populations in the natural environment as well as on private farm or gardening properties.

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Wildcrafting Practices

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I believe in the importance of healthy human management and care of wild and natural environments. When wildcrafting on private and public lands I have ethics that I am committed to.

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• I get to know each plant species intimately so that I can harvest without harming the population. This means I spend time, over all seasons, in each area I harvest in.

• I only harvest from stands of species that are abundant

• The amount I harvest entirely depends on the species and the size of the plant community. Sometimes, with a invasive type species I can harvest 80-90%. With other species I may only take 10% in addition to only harvesting from it every few years. While others may go untouched.

• I use farming practices in the wild, such as seed scattering or planting, branch layering, re-planting root crowns or pieces of root, harvesting branches for bark instead of taking from the trunk and propagating cuttings to replant in order to ensure I am maintaining or increasing the species over time.

• I return to the plants throughout the year to maintain the above farming practices.

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Farming Practices

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In order to fit into my ethics of increasing the health of our land, all farming practices are to be no-till after initial establishment, with plant material and nutrient outputs equaling inputs. Farming is inspired by nature.

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• Excess plant material will be returned to the garden beds in addition to the elements that were removed; the vitamins and minerals that leave inside the herbs we have harvested.

• Inputs returning include naturally occurring materials such as compost, manure, minerals and plant debris.

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