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Turkey Tail Mushroom Benefits, Usage, and Side Effects

Mushrooms are small but mighty. T...

Turkey Tail Mushroom Benefits, Usage, and Side Effects

Mushrooms are small but mighty. T...

Cordyceps Mushroom Benefits, Usage, and Side Effects

It’s unlikely that you’ve ever seen a Cordyceps mushroom in the wild, but you may have heard about this unusual fungus. Although they look strange and grow in an odd manner, the...

lifestyle

Get Growing: Spring Planting Tips & Tricks from Our Expert Gardeners

Spring is in full swing: The sun is shining, and warmer days are here to stay. It’s the start of the growing season, time to get plants planted so you can watch your garden blos...

7 Best Herbs for Everyday Pain to Support Additional Pain Relief and Restore Balance*

Everyday pain can disrupt your daily life and prevent you from doing the things you love. It’s your body’s way of telling you that you may have overdone it — but that doesn’t me...

Lion's Mane Mushroom Benefits, Usage, and Side Effects

With a stringy, light-colored fruiting body, the Lion’s Mane mushroom is a unique fungus that looks something like, as its name suggests, the mane of a lion. But this mushroom i...

products

4 Tips for Choosing High-Quality Mushroom Supplements to Support Your Health*

“Mushrooms are mothering; they represent Earth energy. Mushrooms transform wood and decaying matter into earth and are representative of Earth.”— Susan Hirsch, Gaia Herbs Formul...

recipes

Black Elderberry Syrup Mocktails: Yes, Please!

Recipes provided by Lily Holmberg, Gaia Herbs Education Director, dedicated home herbal enthusiast, creator of amazing herbal recipes, and all-around plant fan! Are you trying t...

sustainability

Zeroing In on Zero Waste: Gaia’s Efforts + 6 Steps You Can Take to Reduce & Reuse at Home

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day this month, we want to share with you one of Gaia Herbs’ many green goals, our Zero Waste 2024 Initiative, as well as some simple steps you can inc...

lifestyle

Spring Forward Feeling Your Best: 4 Seasonal Tips from Traditional Herbalism for Cleansing, Detox & Renewal

Tips and herbal guidance from Lily Holmberg, Gaia Herbs Education Director, dedicated home herbal enthusiast, and all-around plant fan! Our ancestors were onto something: They e...

sustainability

Building a New Gaia Roots Program: Striving for Equity & Inclusion Through Partnership

When we launched the Gaia Herbs Roots Initiative (Gaia Roots) in 2018, which prioritizes underrepresented populations in our social impact work, we did so with the acknowledgeme...

recipes

Homemade & From the Heart: Warming Winter Herbal Recipes for Self-Care & Gift-Giving

Recipes and insight provided by Lily Holmberg, Gaia Herbs director of learning, dedicated home herbal enthusiast, creator of amazing herbal recipes, and all-around plant fan! F...

4 Amazing Mushroom Health Benefits for Your Well-Being

Mushrooms grow all over the world and have been eaten for centuries. But they are much more than just food. Various mushrooms can provide significant health benefits and help us...

Chaga Mushroom Benefits, Usage, and Side Effects

Mushrooms are a delicious addition to many meals, and they also support your body in some pretty astounding ways.* There are thousands of different types of mushrooms, but in th...