Medicinal Herb Network

Partnering medicinal herbal growers & practitioners

About Us

 

In 1998, a Medicinal Herb Network was formed in the Upper-Midwestern US to establish a marketing, communication, and programmatic relationship between health-care practitioners seeking quality medicinal herb products and farmers looking for opportunities to diversify operations and increase profitability. The purpose of the Network was to bring together expertise among medicinal herb growers and health-care practitioners to explore opportunities in the production, processing, marketing, and use of botanicals. An extensive web search for similar endeavors begun elsewhere revealed several organizations comprised of either medicinal herb growers or herbalist health-care practitioners, but none that deliberately included both within the same network. A participatory, community-based action research approach was employed where participants defined issues and research questions, developed agendas and conducted research based upon areas of opportunity identified by ongoing discussion.