Botanical Blog
Food Disaster: Republicans Stomp on GMO Labeling
With no debate and only a voice vote, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture today (July 14, 2015) passed out of committee H.R. 1599, a bill to preempt states’ rights to label GMOs. Within hours, it was announced that the bill will go straight to the House floor, as early as next week, with no vote in the Energy and Commerce Committee.
USDA Gives First Non-GMO Verification
USDA Gives First Non-GMO Verification Viana Muller, Ph.D. Minneapolis, MN—The USDA has verified its first non-GMO claim through its Process Verified Program(PVP). Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted that while the PVP itself is not new, this is the first claim of its kind to be verified through it. He added that other companies have taken interest in having their claims verified through the program. PVP being used for non-GMO verification does not mean that the USDA has set its own non-GMO standards. Instead, the program has the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) act as a third party in verifying marketing...
WWB Meets with Leaders in Communities of Camu-Camu Collectors
WWB Meets with Leaders in Communities of Camu-Camu Collectors
Viana Muller, Ph.D.
Viana Muller, co-founder of Whole World Botanicals, visiting the Apu (head man) of the settlement to find out what kind of help their settlement needs the most.
Sunroom (Greenhouse) Solar Energy Project
Men from 5 maca-growing communities construct a narrow room with glass walls and ceiling to collect the passive solar energy from the brilliant high altitude sun.
Solar Cooker Project
Whole World Botanicals collaborates with our organic farming and wildcrafting partners in the rainforest and the Andes to support not only green farming but also green living.
A Hands on Approach - WWB works directly with native people
A Hands on Approach - WWB works directly with native people
Viana Muller, Ph.D.
"Viana consults with an apu (local leader of a camu-camu collecting community) about challenges of life in the northeastern Peruvian rainforest. Outside commerical interests have clear-cut part of their forest and over fished their rivers, degrading their environment and impoversihing local river dwellers."
WWB Supports & Promotes Bio-energetic Agriculture
WWB Supports & Promotes Bio-energetic Agriculture
Viana Muller, Ph.D.
Whole World Botanicals' herbs are bioenergetically grown and harested. Maca roots, for example, are sown at the full moon and leafy plants are sown with the new moon. In order for medicinal parts to have maximum strength, plants are harvested at the full moon. These practices of native people all over the world are honored by WWB.
WWB - Practicing Fair Trade Since 1996
Whole World Botanicals has partnered for more than a decade with the Quechua-speaking communities who grow our organic maca roots in the high Peruvian Andes.
Preserving The Amazon Rainforest
In 2007, the Peruvian government granted WWB a Concesión para Conservación, a Forest Reserve of more than 10,000 acres of virgin old-growth rainforest near the National Park Pacaya-Samiria.
Peruvian Partnerships featuring Whole World Botanicals, Inc. Alliance for New Humanity
A new model of sustainable business practice that respects indigenous wisdom. Large corporations aided by a contemptible global economic system, perpetuate notoriously poor business practices in the majority world.
