About Us

About Clear Source Herbs 

Why Clear Source Herbs?

We started Clear Source Herbs because we saw a need for a trusted source of food-grade culinary herbs that are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine and East Asian traditions. We wanted to offer the public a source that does not compromise on quality, purity and, most importantly, transparency for these herbs and Asian food ingredients. We are proud to offer a range of culinary herbs and ingredients that are either certified organic or rigorously lot-tested, all traceable back to their growing area.

We have partnered with Spring Wind Herbs, a company known for supplying practitioners of Chinese medicine with herbs of the best quality and purity available and for providing unparalleled transparency to their customers. This partnership allows Clear Source Herbs access to the growers, suppliers and manufacturers that Spring Wind relies on and build on those relationships further. We try to partner with small growers whenever we can and are currently working with several growers to grow herbs that are difficult to grow pesticide-free for the larger-scale growers.  

 

Our Goals for Establishing Clear Source Herbs

- To provide the general public with a trusted and transparent source of food-grade herb ingredients from East Asian medical traditions.

- Increase the use of, demand for, and awareness around organic and pesticide-free culinary herbs and foods.

- Reduce the use of chemical pesticides by encouraging growers to gravitate towards organic and sustainable growing practices.

 Spring Wind has always been at the forefront of advocating for growing and using pesticide-free and organic Chinese herbs. But, with a relatively small practitioner market generating limited demand, we realized the difficulty of encouraging many herb growers in Asia to transition to organic growing methods and reducing or eliminating their use of chemical pesticides. The niche practitioner market size also makes it difficult for Spring Wind to find new growing partners who are willing to shift to sustainable growing methods. We realize that for change to take place at a larger scale, product demand and awareness is needed at a much larger scale. That is one of our main motivations for starting Clear Source Herbs. By opening the market for the general public to purchase pesticide-free and organic food-grade herbs, we hope that Clear Source can become one of the driving forces to increase awareness and demand for herbs that are sustainably and organically grown. While we realize that we are a very small player in the scope of the entire herb industry, we strongly believe that change can only happen by starting with ourselves. So, here we are.

 

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Our Fight Against Chemical Pesticides and Other Contaminants

We only work with growers that are either certified organic or are willing to work with us to gravitate towards a pesticide-free solution. We lot-test all our herbs and if a lot comes up positive with the smallest amount of pesticide residue, we will reject that lot and work with the grower to find out the issue and correct the next harvest, or look for a new grower if this continues to happen.

For this reason, you might sometimes find that we are out of stock of a certain herb. We feel this is the only way to ensure our customers receive the purist herbs they would expect from Clear Source Herbs (And Spring Wind).

More details about our quality can be found at Our Quality and Testing and Herb Grade Definitions .

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