Carefully compiled by our formulators and product education team and integrated with expert references and resources, our Herb Reference Guide lets you enhance your relationship with herbs by giving you a comprehensive profile of each plant.

Gaia uses fresh herbs when the compounds and actives in those herbs are best extracted fresh. Drying herbs can concentrate the active constituents, but certain herbs lose their active principles (such as Slippery Elm’s mucilage) when dried.

One of the major advantages Gaia has is that we own and operate a Certified Organic farm next to our processing facility, which allows us to process fresh plant material immediately after harvest.