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BY GERALD OCHS Rappahannock News Special Writer
The Dreamtime Center for Herbal Studies did us a service last week. Kathleen Maier and Theresa Boardwine and staff hosted the United Plant Savers’ (UpS) benefit and presentation at the Ki Theatre, and gave us an opportunity to hear Rosemary Gladstar, Richard Liebmann and Paul Strauss speak about the conservation and cultivation of native medicinal plants.
There are a few facts that speak for themselves:
Many native medicinal plants are at-risk, are overcollected, and could be picked to extinction in a matter of years;
The cultivation of many of these botanicals is straightforward; Phytomedicines are extracted from native medicinals by conventional and
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