Journal 2025

Letter From Our CEO 2025
Dear Valued CustomerAt Mountain Rose Herbs, we’re always working to ensure that the herbs we offer are of the highest quality and sourced to support both the plants and the people who harvest them. Over the past year, I’ve traveled to events like the Sustainable Herbs Initiative,...

2025 Herbal Events Calendar
All of us here at Mountain Rose Herbs are looking forward to blossoming new and old connections throughout the country this year.Whether it’s in-person classes, herbal festivals, educational conferences, or natural product tradeshows, it is our honor to attend these community gatherings and also...

Mountain Rose Herbs Loyalty Program
Have You Heard the News?In February of this year, we launched a loyalty program to reward our incredible community for their continued support. Retail customers can now earn points on various things, like celebrating a birthday, following us on social media, and placing orders of their favorite herbal...

Herbal Student Highlight 2025
As you may know, Mountain Rose Herbs is committed to providing abundant educational resources to the community. In addition to our blog which contains thousands of free articles and recipes, we also connect students with herb schools who offer a more formal course of training. This year, we decided to...

Strawberry Spinach Salad with 4 Dressing Options
+ + + +As the bashful sunshine emerges from its shell and the springtime bulbs begin to bloom, I’ve found myself pondering what this season of optimism represents for me. During my childhood, spring meant primarily one thing: gardening time! With my dad’s hide-and-seek-worthy corn crop,...

Zero Waste DIY Cleansers for Spring Cleaning
+ + + + + + + +Here in the Willamette Valley, the sun is beginning to make its appearance at long last. Spring is a time of renewal and growth, and while we see this play out in the natural world around us, the season invites us to start a kind of unfurling in our own lives as well. After a long...

Is the Use of Ginseng Ethical?
Many herbalists and health enthusiasts eventually face an important question—to ginseng or not to ginseng. Most of us know that American ginseng is a precious plant that has been victim to overharvesting and poaching in the wild. For years, this has caused many to decide that they shouldn’t...

Herbs for Mental and Emotional Stagnation
We have all experienced times when we felt stuck in our heads and emotions. Calling upon supportive herbal allies can be incredibly useful (and enjoyable) when used with other interventions like therapy or increased time in nature. These botanical allies have helped me get through some of these heavy...

FairWild
Many of us are familiar with Fair Trade Certification, which is a crucial system used to protect farm workers around the world to ensure they have fair working conditions, wages, and community needs such as schools, libraries, doctors’ offices, etc. But what about those who harvest botanicals from...

3 Herbal-Inspired Natural Hair Styling Products
Whether your unique mane coils into bouncy ringlets, twists into wild waves, or cascades down as straight as a pin, you’ve undoubtedly experienced a bad hair day or two in your time. With countless products promising to fix all your haircare concerns, finding the right fit for your hair goals is no...

Quiz: Test Your Herbal Knowledge!
We've created this fun quiz so you can find out where you are on your herbalism journey and discover topics you may want to explore further.