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name: Kerry  Hughes
about: Ethnobotanist, Clinical Herbalist and Author, Kerry Hughes - with a 20-year record-of-success in natural products- is driven by a tenacious fascination with the potential health enhancing role plants and nutrients can play. Kerry’s love of natural products has compelled her to write and speak frequently on a variety of subjects. Her writing includes the recently published Botanicals With Benefits: Establish a New Relationship with your garden (2020), as well as these in-depth text books: Understanding Socio-Ecological Systems through Decoloniality: Convergence of Indigenous and Western Knowledge (in press); The Incense Bible, Taylor &amp; Francis (2007), one of the first scientific reviews &amp; examinations of incense, The Health Professionals Gui Ethnobotanist, Clinical Herbalist and Author, Kerry Hughes - with a 20-year record-of-success in natural products- is driven by a tenacious fascination with the potential health enhancing role plants and nutrients can play. Kerry’s love of natural products has compelled her to write and speak frequently on a variety of subjects. Her writing includes the recently published Botanicals With Benefits: Establish a New Relationship with your garden (2020), as well as these in-depth text books: Understanding Socio-Ecological Systems through Decoloniality: Convergence of Indigenous and Western Knowledge (in press); The Incense Bible, Taylor &amp; Francis (2007), one of the first scientific reviews &amp; examinations of incense, The Health Professionals Guide to Dietary Supplements, Lippincott, Williams &amp; Wilkins (2006), a peer-reviewed guide to herbs and nutritional supplements, and Botanical Medicines: The Desk Reference for Major Herbal Supplements, Haworth Press (2002) an in-depth text-book on the medical aspects of many of our top supplements. Additionally, she has authored over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on various natural product topics. Kerry is a certified Clinical Herbalist by the Berkeley Herbal Center, an Advanced Australian Bush Flower Essence Practitioner, and an Ethnobotanist. She currently maintains an herbal practice at the SLOHealth Center in San Luis Obispo. She is also a teacher at the Berkeley Herbal Center &amp; The Herbal Academy of New England. Kerry has a background in Ethnobotany and Biochemistry, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry, and a Master of Science degree in Agriculture with an emphasis in Ethnobotany and Soil Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California. ...more