The Basis = Classical Botany ✅ 💚 🌿

For decades, classical botany has quietly held up everything we do with medicinal plants…and Trish Flaster is watching that foundation erode.

➡️ In this teaser from our Explorer’s Way Episode, she talks about how funding cuts to herbaria and the de‑emphasis of traditional botany are undermining our ability to even know what plant we’re working with.

While the industry races toward flashier analytical tools and molecular techniques, Trish reminds us that none of that matters if the basic identification is wrong, and if we have nothing to look back on (which is the purpose of a Voucher Specimen).

If we care about real quality control for botanicals, she argues, then supporting herbaria and classical botany isn’t optional; it’s the starting point.

Tune in this coming week (March 19th on LinkedIn, and a few days before on You Tube) to the next Episode of The Explorer’s Way- Trish Flaster: The Importance of Classical Botany in Assuring Quality.