Rising Up Together ✅💚🌿
Some striking statistics were shared by Mark Blumenthal of the American Botanical Council and Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program at this […]
Guess who I nerded around with this week?
This week I was lucky to have attended the ICSB conference surrounded by some of the brightest botanical brains: including
ICSB Wrapping Up & Reflection ✅🧪🌿💚🌎
One uncomfortable truth keeps surfacing: as an industry, we still invest far more in marketing than we do in science.
Day 4 at ICSB—Meeting the Complexity of Plants
What continues to stand out is how naturally systems thinking & complexity science is converging with the way many of
Some Networks Are Built to Last… Oxford ICSB 2026💚🌿
Stefan Gafner James Kababick Trish Flaster Nilufer Orhan Mark Blumenthal Cécile Bascoul, Ph.D.
Day 3 at ICSB: Vouching for Quality on Earth Day 💚🌿🌎
The voucher specimen: a pressed plant, carefully preserved and archived, serving as a permanent reference point for identity. In an
Day 2 ICSB Hot Topic-
One of the hot topics on day two of ICSB: functional mushrooms; and more specifically, the need for proper reference
The ICSB is in Full Swing 🤓🫶💚🌿
ICSB is one of the few conferences that truly brings both sides of the conversation into the same room: scientists
On the way to ICSB!
On my way to the 24th Annual International Conference on the Science of Botanicals (ICSB)…looking forward to a week of
Aloe Vera Common Adulterants-
Adulteration is the practice of substituting, diluting, or otherwise manipulating a botanical ingredient so that what’s sold is not what