Peggy Schafer
Peg Schafer is a nationally recognized authority on the growing of Chinese herbs, and oversees several projects that focus on growing the highest quality and most medicinally efficacious Asian herbs possible. With a background in nursery management and farming, she is the owner/operator of the Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm near Petaluma, California. This 13-year-old certified organic farm has produced more than 250 different Chinese herb crops, and has sold to practitioners, product manufacturers, researchers and the general public. The farm functions partly as an experimental operation trialing Asian herbs, compiling data on the cultivation of herbs of medicinal and economic interest. A comprehensive database has been maintained since 2003. In addition the Farm hosts a popular nine-month farming internship for growers, students and practitioners. More background on the farm is available at www.chinesemedicinalherbfarm.com.
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Peg is a co-founding member of the Medicinal Herb Consortium, a marketing group of farmer-volunteers educating growers in the production of these unique crops (www.localherbs.org.) She serves on the board of directors of the Sonoma County Herb Association whose project the Sonoma County Herb Exchange, a clearinghouse of locally grown herbs linking growers to herb customers (www.sonomherbs.org.), and is a frequent lecturer at colleges of Oriental medicine and farming as well as Oriental medicine conferences, where she addresses herb quality, cultivation, and issues affecting Chinese herbs.
contact Peggy:
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