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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face="Bookman Old Style"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:red'>PS> Sorry
for mis-spelling your name Jean.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Cheers.
Eric<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:red'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face="Bookman Old Style"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
MPWG-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org
[mailto:MPWG-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Eric P. Burkhart<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="1" Day="7" Year="2005"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Friday, January 07, 2005</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="12" Minute="18"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>12:18 PM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Jean Giblette'; 'PCA's
Medicinal Plant Working Group List'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [MPWG] Cultivation of
Medicinal Plants</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>Greetings:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>Ecological cultivation……what do we mean by this?<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Sure, as Jeanne has done, we can point to
certifiable forms of eco-horticulture (i.e., biodynamic, organic,
biological-agriculture, etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>I submit to you that other, less neatly definable, forms of
“ecological” cultivation continue to occur under the radar and these are being
questioned in the very name of “medicinal plant conservation.”<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Take for example American ginseng.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The market actually prefers a product that is
ecologically produced, using the natural forest ecosystems that we are blessed
with in eastern </span></font><st1:place><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>North America</span></font></st1:place><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This type of product is
essentially a “wild” product…….yet the growers, planters, husbanders, whatever
you elect to call them, of this type of product are being slowly forced into
calling it “wild-simulated.”<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Why?<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Because from a government management
perspective (which is admittedly well-intentioned), the two products cannot be
distinguished apart and how then can the “wild” populations be identified
and/or managed?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Why should it matter if
they have to call it “wild simulated” versus “wild?”<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Well, it should not….in an ideal world.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But in the modern marketplace there is
failure to compensate folks duly for their agricultural goods, and wild versus
wild simulated---by name alone---may mean the difference between getting $400
per pound versus $150, respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>So then, what do we mean by suggesting that “cultivation is the
future.” I suppose we mean that one should introduce plants into orderly
horticultural systems (within whatever eco-nomencultural context we each
individually embrace)?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I certainly am
not hearing any support for, or acknowledgement of, all those folks out there
(and they are out there) who quietly go about their business of tending plants
in the woods (or whatever ecosystem)….plants that appear as “wild” as can be
when we trespass on their lands through imposed top-down inspections,
regulations, and the like.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>I am raising rhetorical questions here folks, and not trying to
ruffle feathers or place fault on any stakeholder.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But it does seem to me that one of the best
methods for conserving AND culturing a native medicinal forest plant (of high
quality mind you)---namely low-input, low-disturbance agroforestry systems---is
being threatened by our naive conservation lexicon and rubric.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>No easy answers here to be sure.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>Kindest regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'>Eric<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Bookman Old Style"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
MPWG-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org [mailto:MPWG-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jean Giblette<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="1" Day="7" Year="2005"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Friday, January 07, 2005</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="11" Minute="22"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>11:22 AM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> PCA's Medicinal Plant Working
Group List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [MPWG] Cultivation of
Medicinal Plants</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I know many growers in the </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>U.S.</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span></font><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Europe</span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Australia</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>New
Zealand</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> who consider
themselves to be the ORIGINATORS of this knowledge base of ecological
cultivation. Yes, there were the prophets -- Okada, Howard, Steiner,
Voisin, </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fukuoka</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -- but in
the industrial world the machine worldview has ruled for a
century. Organics was an entirely grass-roots activity for 50 years
in the </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>U.S.</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> until the
Federal rule was formulated in the 1990s. The agricultural education
establishment was actively hostile to it. [Steve Diver has been quite the
exception to the norm, all along.] I myself was rebuffed by my local Ag
Extension agent in the early '90s when I began growing Chinese medicinal herbs
-- now he's very courteous and helpful. Fortunately I was able to find
enlightened academics, but many are encumbered by their institutions. The
ecological farmers have created their own separate teaching organizations,
associations and conferences.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bio-dynamics, historically, was
developed only by growers, never the province of the academy or industrial
concerns unless owned by Anthroposophists. It was almost entirely
underground until the 1990s in the </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>U.S.</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, as its
practitioners were met with utter derision at the idea of following the course
of the moon in their procedures, or using fermented herbal preparations in
homeopathic doses. As far as I'm concerned, a bio-dynamically
cultivated herb is as good or better than a wild plant. I visited
two biodynamic medicinal plant gardens this past summer, in NY and </span></font><st1:State><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Quebec</span></font></st1:place></st1:State><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, where the
plants exhibited truly astonishing vitality. It's so apparent I call it
the "Findhorn effect."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For one moment, can we address class
prejudice against farmers? An anecdote will serve. This past
September at the conclusion of one of my workshops, an Oriental medicine
practitioner in attendance told me that the weekend had changed his life.
He's a young African-American man, practicing in </span></font><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jersey</span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, whose
ancestors were sharecroppers in </span></font><st1:State><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>North
Carolina</span></font></st1:place></st1:State><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. He said, "I always
thought that farming was beneath me, something I would never want to be involved
in. Then I saw that man [referring to the bio-dynamic medicinal plant
grower who was lecturing], how incredibly skilled and thoughtful he is, and how
wide-ranging his knowledge. And my whole worldview shifted."
He later told me he had enrolled himself and his two young children in a
horticulture course.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>To be ruthlessly frank, the big
deficit of this listserve is that the growers are missing from the
discussion. I can afford the time to write this response only because I'm
holed up after a snowstorm in January.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ecological cultivation of medicinal
plants is the way to go.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jean Giblette, Director<br>
</span></font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>HIGH</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><st1:PlaceType><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>FALLS</span></font></st1:PlaceType><font
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bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a href="mailto:info@businesshorizons.com"
title="info@businesshorizons.com">JPS Kohli</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:MPWG@lists.plantconservation.org"
title="MPWG@lists.plantconservation.org">MPWG@lists.plantconservation.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><st1:date
Month="1" Day="7" Year="2005"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Friday, January 07, 2005</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="1" Minute="27"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>1:27 AM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> [MPWG]
Cultivation of Medicinal Plants<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Steve Diver has further strengthened my belief that
cultivation (bio-dynamic or organic or any other form it takes) will be the
next big thing to happen in the field of medicinal plants. It is my belief that
cultivation is the immediate next step forward which has to be understood
before embarking on newer (and maybe better) methods towards conservation of
medicinal plants. Good agricultural practices (encompassing all processes
starting from soil preparation to harvesting/storage) needs to be implemented
industry-wide and certification agencies will have an important role to play.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sadly, the growers/cultivators of medicinal plants are
among the most inaccessible parts of the chain of supply in medicinal plants
trade and the knowledgebase (as improved from time to time) takes an eternity
to percolate down to them. Lets hope things change for the better sooner rather
than later.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Note for Steve Diver - Your website mentioned in
your email is an awesome source of information. My compliments for this
achievement.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>J P </span></font><st1:place><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>S Kohli</span></font></st1:place><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> (B. Pharm)<br>
Business Horizons<br>
Pharmaceutical Publishers<br>
G-59, Masjid Moth, GK-2<br>
</span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>New
Delhi</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> - 110 048, </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>INDIA</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></p>
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