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Our Mission
Using wild botanicals helps us connect with the biodiversity and immense utility of the plants of our terroir. Many of the botanical treasures of this content and region have been forgotten and lost to history, with many people perceiving the only useful plants to be the handful of domesticated plants used in our increasingly globalized diet and lives, forgetting that the reasons these plants became domesticated are present in many other plants in every ecosystem. Bio-active compounds produced by plants can be used by our bodies- plants (and fungi) often face many of the same biological threats as we do- bacteria, inflammation, viruses, and so on. The types of properties we seek out in plants for skincare and herbal medicine are found in the myriad of plants in our own ecosystem here in Michigan. Changing people's relationships and views of the plant world around them is a central focus in our work.