The Business of Botanicals

As director of the Sustainable Herbs Program, this fascinating investigative journey takes the reader into the world of herbal supplements, on which consumers spent $9 billion in 2019. It contains many memorable encounters around the world in a generally trusting domain. The message is that connections between people and plants need to be awakened and sustained by care, intention and attention. The author observes how the journey is 'about learning how to live in the presence of a world we did not make. Like the plants, the world is alive. And the task first is to meet that aliveness. That realisation, in turn, helped me listen more deeply.'