Thank you to our 2018 AHG Sponsors

The American Herbalists Guild is deeply grateful for the generous support of our Sponsors. Their contributions allow us to continue to fulfill our organizational mission and support the important work of our members as herbalists in their communities.

Gold Sponsors

New York Institute of Aromatic Studies

New York Institute of Aromatic Studie was founded because of how fascinated, inspired and moved we were by those discoveries in ourselves; that’s why our experience—and our curriculum—goes far beyond the chemistry of oils to include all the ways in which you experience aromatherapy, from scent to memory, from emotion to energy. We started our journey as one of the first aromatherapy schools in the U.S. back in 1990. From that beginning, our mission was to offer a balanced, progressive and inspiring approach to aromatherapy education.

Silver Sponsors

	American Botanical Council ABC is an independent, nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to providing accurate and reliable information for consumers, healthcare practitioners, researchers, educators, industry and the media.
	Bastyr University Herbal sciences, naturopathic medicine, and related programs in health and science. Campuses in Kenmore, WA and San Diego, CA.
	Frontier Coop Founded in 1976 and based in Norway, Iowa, Frontier Co-op offers a full line of bulk products including herbs, spices, teas, and nutritional foods. Frontier's goal is to provide consumers with the highest-quality organic and natural products while supporting and promoting social and environmental responsibility.
	Luminary Medicine Herbalism is the use of plant nourishment to promote health and vitality, to facilitate recovery from injury and illness, and to restore and maintain balance. It is the application of an understanding of both traditional energetic systems and modern medicine, founded in the wisdom of ancestral cultures and now incorporating the sciences of physiology and biochemistry. Our practices incorporate the principles of functional nutrition science into formulation and delivery system development.
	Mountain Rose Herbs From product quality and sustainable packaging, to fair trade practices and watershed conservation, Mountain Rose Herbs takes pride in doing business right. Their core belief that people, plants, and planet are more important than profit guides everything they do.
	NAMMEX Nammex organic mushroom extracts set the standard for genuine, 100% mushroom products. Our Nammex Fingerprinting Protocol has revolutionized quality control with verified testing of the important active compounds.
	Red Moon Herbs For 25 years, Red Moon Herbs has specialized in handcrafting fresh and potent herbal extracts, salves, oils, vinegars, syrups, and other weedy medicines harvested in their peak season from the heart of the Appalachians. We also focus on organic, locally cultivated or consciously wildcrafted herbs for teas, infusions, and medicine-making.
	Standard Process Since 1929, Standard Process has been dedicated to the field of nutritional supplements and the whole food philosophy introduced by Dr. Royal Lee. Discover just how resilient your body can be when given the proper nutrition.

Copper Sponsors

	Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine An herb school integrating Western herbal medicine and Chinese medicine with a focus on clinical skills and medicine making.
	BotanoLogos School of Herbal Studies BotanoLogos has introduced herbalism to thousands of people in the Southeast since 1993. The school’s curriculum, which includes the Foundations of Herbalism and weekend seminars at beginning and intermediate levels, day-long classes, plant walks and hands-on workshops, offers you a unique approach to herbal studies. In addition to practical, well-organized classes we also encourage you to use your senses to experience herbs so that you gain the confidence needed to use herbs safely and effectively for your own health and to make herbalism available to others in your community.
	Five Flavors Herbs Based in California since 2007, Five Flavors Herbs cultivates a unique and specialized approach to holistic healing. Founded by Benjamin Zappin, professional herbalist and acupuncturist, and Dr. Ingrid Bauer, MD, MS, Five Flavors Herbs bridges the therapeutic traditions of East and West. Focused on sustainable, local, and ethically wild-harvested botanicals, Five Flavors Herbs formulates herbal products that provide superior care for individual patients and reliable tools for practitioners and purveyors.
	Gaia Herbs Gaia Herbs is a leading herbal brand in North America, with more than 200 patented Liquid Phyto-Caps™, liquid extracts, functional powders and herbal teas to help support and maintain optimal health. From seed to shelf, Gaia is deeply committed to the purity, integrity and potency of each product.
	Golden Needle Golden Needle is located just outside of Asheville, NC. They serve herbalists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, massage therapists, naturopaths and health enthusiasts all over the country. Golden Needle provides wholesale accounts to anyone with a state issued practitioner license or herbalists with 200+ hours of herbal training. Offering over 18,000 items including bulk herbs, teas, tinctures, medicine making supplies, supplements, homeopathics and more, they are truly your one stop shop for high quality natural products.
	Herbalist & Alchemist, INC For over 30 years, Herbalist and Alchemist has manufactured Practitioner-quality herbal extracts and exclusive formulas developed by David Winston RH, (AHG), internationally known lecturer, author and ethnobotanist. H&A is committed to producing quality products from plants organically grown or ethically wild-crafted.
	Herban Farmacy Herban Farmacy is Asheville’s first herbal CSA offering hand-crafted, locally grown and harvested seasonal herbal shares to support your health and vitality through the changing seasons. Herban Farmacy aims to strengthen community bonds and connections with our green allies, through education and healing experiences offered through herbal medicine, shares, classes and support practices for self care and healing. www.herbanfarmacy.org
	HerbPharm The desire for good health brings people together, but the delivery on that promise makes people stay which is why our customers have been part of our community for 35 years. People use our products for a wide variety of reasons. Some want to improve their stamina, while others want to improve their immunity. The list goes on. Every person shares one main goal — the will to take charge of their own health. In one word, it’s about empowerment. Our research-driven herbal solutions come in different forms — liquids, capsules, topicals — to give you complete control over how they can be adjusted and their desired strength. If you're ready for a better solution then it's time to Treat Yourself to Better Health™ with herbal extracts!
	Host Defense® Organic Mushrooms™ Fungi Perfecti® is a family-owned, environmentally friendly company specializing in using gourmet and functional food mushrooms to improve the health of the planet and its people.
	Mama Jo's Sunshine Herbals Enjoy a cup of complementary tea in the relaxing atmosphere of herbs and handmade herbal delights. Teas, tinctures, lotions, soaps, facial products, salves, and more. Shop located in Indian Harbour Beach, FL.
	Pure Indian Foods Founded in 2008, they are the top maker of Grassfed Organic Ghee products in the United States. Their family has been in the ghee business for 5 generations, since 1889.
	Quicksilver Scientific Quicksilver Scientific is dedicated to producing superior nutraceutical products tailored at supporting the human detoxification system for the optimization of health. Quicksilver Scientific, founded in 2005 by Dr. Chris Shade, is an industry leader in the production of superior liposomal delivery systems and blood metals testing. We are the only company to offer advanced mercury speciation testing (the Mercury Tri-Test) and are a CLIA-certified laboratory. We use state-of-the-art testing technology to give the most accurate and reliable metal testing available today. We sell our professional line of products to Registered Practitioners and Distributors via the wholesale store (https://qsdev3.com/purchase/purchase-wholesale). Retail customers can purchase products (which do not need medical supervision) at www.quicksilverlife.com.
	Traditions School of Herbal Studies Traditions School of Herbal Studies providers beginner to clinical instruction in Western and Chinese Herbal Medicine as well as spiritual and bioregional classes. Programs include weekly herbal clinical practice. Classes taught by experienced clinicians Renee Prince & Bob Linde (AP, RH) on their half acre medicinal garden and at the clinic/apothecary in Tampa Bay, FL.
	Wise Woman Herbals For nearly 30 years, Wise Woman Herbals® has remained true to its mission to produce superior quality botanical supplements that provide a gentle and natural way for supporting quality of life. Wise Woman Herbals is a professional product line comprised of over 325 botanical supplements, handmade in our USDA Certified Organic manufacturing facility in Oregon. We source our plants from small local farms and use only the finest organic, biodynamic, ethically wild crafted and best quality plants, extracted and preserved with purely natural ingredients.

Green Sponsors

	AHPA The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) is the national trade association and voice of the herbal products industry. AHPA is comprised of more than 350 domestic and foreign companies doing business as growers, processors, manufacturers, and marketers of herbs and botanical and herbal products, including foods, dietary supplements, cosmetics, and non-prescription drugs. Founded in 1982, AHPA's mission is to promote the responsible commerce of herbal products.
	ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism The ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism exists to provide the highest quality education and training based on traditional wisdom and ecological awareness in a modern, integrative setting for the clinical, community and family herbalist.
	Hedge Witch Apothecary At Hedge Witch Apothecary, we use the finest ingredients to hand craft fresh quality products. Each and every product is created out of the deepest gratitude for the plants that have long since been overshadowed and replaced by the modern world.
	Learning Herbs LearningHerbs is like having a friend breaking it down for you, step-by-step. And that earache? You’ll soon know how to use garlic and olive oil, or perhaps the mullein flowers blooming in your garden. LearningHerbs makes it as easy as following a recipe.
	Mother Earth News Fair At the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR, you’ll discover a dazzling array of workshops and lectures designed to get you further down the path to independence and self-reliance.
	Oshala Farm Oshala Farm is family owned and operated by Jeff and Elise Higley. Jeff's passion for farming and background in organic vegetable and fruit production and Elise's passion for Western Herbalism collided into a full fledged herb farm in Southern Oregon's lush Applegate Valley.
	WishGarden Herbal Remedies for Lifestyle, Immunity, Sleep, Pregnancy and more! Free shipping in the U.S. Friendly customer service. 1-888-301-2926.

Community Sponsors

	Appalachian Sustainable Development Appalachian Sustainable Development (ASD), a nationally recognized non-profit founded in 1995 and located in Abingdon, VA, strives to transition Appalachia to a more resilient economy and a healthier population by supporting local agriculture, exploring new economic opportunities and connecting people to healthy food. Since 2000, ASD’s Appalachian Harvest food hub has helped produce farmers access wholesale markets and generate over $15MM in sales by providing training in food safety, handling, and organic certification, aggregation and distribution support, and marketing services. In 2017, an herb hub was established at Appalachian Harvest, offering the same services to medicinal herb farmers in effort to connect consumers to locally grown herbs. The herb hub offers forest farming training to encourage conservation through cultivation of at risk herbs, shared use commercial washing and drying equipment, and aggregation and marketing services. For more information about ASD go to www.asdevelop.org, Facebook or Twitter.
	Herbalista The Herbalista Free Clinic provides free herbal care via our mobile clinics, the Herb Bus and the Herb Cart, to underserved communities in Atlanta and around the country. In addition to our clinical services we also offer herbal education, training other herbalists on how they can start up mobile clinics in their neck of the woods.
	Integrative Medicine for the Underserved Integrative Medicine for the Underserved is a collaborative, multidisciplinary group of people committed to affordable, accessible integrative health care for all. Through outreach, education, research, and advocacy, we support those dedicated to promoting health in underserved populations. Together we work to shift the current paradigm towards wellness, prevention, patient empowerment, and self-care.
	National Ayurvedic Medical Association The National Ayurvedic Medical Association represents the Ayurvedic profession in the United States of America.
	National Health Freedom Action National Health Freedom Action (NHFA) is working to ensure consumer access to herbalists and other healing practitioners, and to ensure these practitioners’ legal right to practice. NHFA is working to pass safe harbor legislation in every state. These bills give herbalists and many other practitioners exemption from medical practice acts. We now have safe harbor bills in ten states, including Minnesota, Rhode Island, California, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Idaho, Arizona (partial, only for homeopaths), Colorado, New Mexico, and our most recent addition, Nevada. NHFA is working to ensure each person’s right to access the healing practitioners, products, and information they need on their healing journey.
	NC Herb Association The N.C. Herb Association is an official state commodity group, with advisors from NC State University and the NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Its purpose is to promote the production, marketing, and use of herbs and herb related products through education and research. It does this by sponsoring conferences and festivals, issuing a newsletter, maintaining a website, and partnering with other organizations to promote and encourage high standards of conduct and quality of products within the industry.
	Traditional Roots Traditional Roots Institute’s mission is to help bring the people’s medicine back to the people, by direct community education and offering opportunities for all healthcare providers to deepen their understanding of herbal medicine and advance its clinical practice.
	United Plant Savers United Plant Savers' mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the USA and Canada and their habitat ensuring a renewable supply for generations to come.