Topic: Quality

Farmers are often offered a long menu of medicinal plants. The first record that matters is the planting material: the species, the source, and the fact that a threatened wild plant was not quietly dug up to fill the order.

Accreditation, where it exists, should be named from the official scheme. This page does not invent a certificate.

What a nursery record should be able to show

• The scientific name, not only the trade name.
• The source of the stock.
• That a threatened wild plant was not dug up to fill the order.

Where an official accreditation scheme exists, name that scheme. This page does not invent a certificate.

Good agricultural and collection practices are a discipline of records: place, date, species, and what happened after harvest. This site does not publish the field steps.

Traceability is how a later user knows they are not holding a substituted plant. Wild collection needs a conservation reason, not only a market reason.

The record, not the recipe

Good practices ask for place, date, species, and what happened after harvest. This site does not publish the field steps. Wild collection needs a conservation reason. A market reason on its own is not enough.