medicinal herbs are really important for alot of different reasons. they of course help heal various maladies but i think also theyhelp connect us to nature which is probably the greatest malady in our society of alland so knowing the plants that are around you and how they might be applied to helpus is a way of healing the human plant connection. especially when you're talking about the medicinals,i think they're very important from a historic point of view, culturally, and there's somany issues now with poaching and i think that people need to have access to differenttypes of medicinal plants especially the woodland herbs but not at the expense of limiting themfor future generations. and so i think it's important for people to understand what theyare and how they grow and that they can grow
their own. so especially people who want togo in the forest and harvest these things for financial gain, they can begin to growtheir own and there are ways to do that and i'm all about trying to help people learnhow to grow those medicinal herbs so that they can continue the heritage of harvestingbut also the financial gain of harvesting as well and not leading to sustainabilityissues. if the people and the government and the universities recognized that this is asituation then we make take the next necessary step i think which is reseeding. we can'tcontinually take billions of plants each year from our forests and have a reseeding programfrom private people like myself of 70,000 seeds. i mean, i'm not even making a dent.i've been studying herbalism for about a decade
and a half and i'm deeply committed to replenishingour native plant supplies rather than purely just harvesting but i think it's of the utmostimportance that we integrate ourselves through more of an understanding of a cyclical cycle.so if we only learn to harvest and not reproduce or not carry and save the seed and not germinatethe seed, then we're still part of that broken loop.