Here are our picks for the best independently owned plant nurseries near Los Angeles. April 4, 2022 The Indigenous people of northern Baja and Southern California have long harvested white sage ...

Growing white sage can help contribute to solutions for the problem this plant is facing. But as California Native Plant Society’s Bryant notes, it’s also an “obvious choice” for Southern ...

foragers White sage isn’t the only native plant whose numbers are in rapid decline because of poaching and foraging in Southern California and Baja California. Meza Calles said stands of ...

Poachers are stealing wild white sage at an alarming rate from its Southern California habitat and selling it to smudge stick makers. Here’s how to save the native plant. Now, here are other ...

CNPS estimates that with very few commercial growers, the vast majority of white sage products on the market are poached. The plant only naturally occurs in Southern California and Northern Baja ...

From San Luis Obispo south to Baja California, white sage grows natively and has been used by Native ... filmmakers Rose Ramirez and Deborah Small explain the importance of the plant in pollination, ...

Black said many plants are medicinal or culturally ... Other species include California rose, blue elderberry, white sage, and purple sage. Black, an environmental soil scientist and graduate ...