The Dark Arts of Adulteration 🪄 🕶️ 🌿
In this new Explorer’s Way Episode we dive into the dark arts of adulteration. Stefan Gafner walks us through some […]
Discovery Spotlight: New Zombie Fungus 🧟 🍄
In 2025, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew highlighted a remarkable new fungus from Brazil that parasitizes trapdoor spiders, earning it a
Rewild Your Tonic 💚 🌿 🥃
Tonic water has its roots in the tropics, where British colonials mixed bitter quinine from cinchona bark into water as
Zombification 101: The Moment Stefan Chose Natural Products Chemistry 🧟 🌿
Long before Stefan Gafner was leading the charge on adulteration, he was a pharmacy student sitting in a ski‑week lecture,
New to the Natural Products Industry? …Check out my Onboarding module!
There are so many topics and language that are completely novel to this industry, and that is where SupplySide Fresh
The Future Nutra Foundation Launches New Nonprofit Initiative to Elevate Supplement Quality, Releases First Electrolyte Product Test Results 🥛 🏃 🚀
Today we’re officially launching the Future Nutra Foundation, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to help raise the bar on quality
Nerding out with our friends 😄 🤓 💚 🌿 📖
Some of the best parts of this work aren’t the plants at all…they’re the people. In this teaser, Stefan Gafner
Tilo: From Calm Tea to Sacred Smoke 🌿 ☕ ☁️ ✨
Tilo (aka. Piri Piri; Justicia pectoralis) is a low, aromatic herb from tropical America in the Acanthaceae, with small leaves
Discovery Spotlight: First New Plant Genus Found in a U.S. National Park in Nearly 50 Years! 👹 🌻
Scientists described Ovicula biradiata, nicknamed the “Woolly Devil,” a remarkable new genus and species discovered in Big Bend National Park,
“Losing Nature’s Medicine”: Kerry Interviewed in Newly Released Podcast
Kerry Hughes of Ethnopharm was interviewed for the newly released Podcast, entitled “Losing Nature’s Medicine” on the Wellness 3.0 Unlocked