Spring has sprung and folks are venturing from their homes after their cozy Covid quarantines to explore their yards and see what's up.
And what is it that's up?
Weeds!
That's right, our yards and gardens are burgeoning with weeds at every turn, dandelions, mallow, purslane...well the purslane isn't burgeoning yet but I'm betting it will in another month or so... prickly lettuce, shepherd's purse and a hundred others are all springing from the ground to celebrate the new season.
So, the United States (along with the rest of the world) has been under quarantine for several weeks. In some areas, infection rate curves for COVID-19, our fancy new coronavirus are flattening out a bit. That's good. In other areas, they continue to climb. The intent of this national quarantine was, so far as I understand it, to spread out the infection rate a bit so that everyone in the country didn't catch it the same week and overwhelm hospital resources. This may have been a very good idea...time will tell. Unfortunately, at some point the other shoe will have to fall and we are all going to have to leave our homes, re-open our businesses and go back to work, school etc...
Then what happens?
As one might expect, the Covid-19 coronavirus has people concerned and very interested in herbs that can stimulate immunity or fight the virus directly. As a result, the demand for herbal medicines and other natural health supplements has been historically high in recent weeks.
Many of our nation's premier herb importers and distribution companies are no longer taking orders due to lack of supply, mandated shut-downs or inadequate staff resources to meet the demand...
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