What is Organic? What is Not?

If Lost Empire Herbs is all about natural herbs, why is nothing labeled organic?

To answer this question, you need to understand the bureaucracy involved in organic labelling. Essentially, every step along the way from where it is grown to processed to packaged must be certified organic.

The Lost Empire Herbs facility where we produce herbs is not certified for organic production. Because of this we can’t include the USDA certified organic symbol, nor any other, on our packaging.

We’re working on that and hope to have that available in the future. Maybe the next year or two.

But many of our products are USDA certified organic before they get to us. Here’s the list of those:

• Reishi
• Chaga
• Cordyceps
• Lion’s Mane
• Cistanche
• Beet Juice Powder
• Schisandra
• Seabuckthorn
• Elderberry
• Goji
• Rhodiola
• Maca

In addition, a USDA certified organic is in the pipeline for:

• Bacopa
• Mucuna
• Shatavari (currently only available inside Athena)

Now, just because our other products don’t make that list doesn’t mean they’re loaded with pesticides and GMO’s, aka that they’re conventional products.

Others are organic but are grown in places that are not certified. With some farms, especially in other countries, organic certification can be cost prohibitive.

Even in the USA, for our Ashwagandha farm for instance, everything is organically grown, even biodynamic, but not certified as such.

And then there’s the whole difficulty of wildharvested herbs. This is more organic than organic in that it’s done wildly in nature! Yet because of this it is very difficult to certify as organic.

For instance, our Pine Pollen comes from wild pine trees. We’ve done a comprehensive pesticides report which came back with flying colors. Yet this doesn’t make it officially organic.

So this article is to show what is at least close to that official seal of approval, and why we don’t currently have it.

If this didn’t answer all your questions on the topic, please leave a comment below.

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Logan Christopher is co-founder and CEO of Lost Empire Herbs, which aims to bring performance herbalism into everyday people’s lives. He started studying plants and fungi as a result of his interest in peak performance and strength training. This includes performing feats of strength such as pulling an 8,800 lb. firetruck by his hair, supporting half a ton on top of himself in a wrestler’s bridge position, and routinely ripping decks of cards in half with his bare hands. After visiting the Amazon rainforest, he received a calling to be an “Emissary of Nature” and thus bring humankind back into alignment with nature for health and well-being. You can read more about this in his book Powered By Nature.

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