Jennifer

Jennifer Gerrity is the Chief Operations Officer at Mountain Rose Herbs and has played a key role in establishing the company's botanical sourcing program over the last decade. She has a bachelor’s degree in Plant Science at Rutgers University, where she specialized in propagation and agribusiness management. During her study there, she focused on tropical agriculture, bioremediation, and tissue culture and continued doing research for the university and the EPA after graduation. Jennifer oversees the staff, production, and quality assurance at Mountain Rose Herbs. She takes special interest in the procurement of high quality organic herbs, spices, and teas through domestic farm visits and international travel. She is committed to farm development and outreach in the form of special projects such as our Fair For Life partnership in Karnataka, and cultivating a domestic market for woods grown American Ginseng.

Recent Posts

How Fair Trade Helps Women & Families

Women are the leading providers of agricultural work in many regions of the world, including in the fields of our organic farm partners in India. Learn how the Fair for Life fair trade program helps empower this female-led labor force through equitable wages, paid time off, and working conditions that are safe for farmers and the environment.

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Exploring the Resilient Roots of Albanian Agriculture

Albania's mountains and valleys teem with rich botanical bounty. Mountain Rose Herbs and United Plant Savers visited its fecund countryside at the peak of the autumn harvest to meet the farmers and wildharvesters who help bring culinary apothecary herbs and fruits to plant lovers across the world (like the ripe and ready hawthorn berries above!).

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Botanical Traditions and Innovations in Bulgaria

United Plant Savers' Susan Leopold and Mountain Rose Herbs' Jennifer Gerrity travel into the Balkan mountains at the peak of the autumn harvest to visit our organic farm and harvest partners in the Bulgarian countryside.

Amidst the stunning foliage of a golden autumn, I journeyed into the lush valleys and mountains of Bulgaria to seek out the wild plant collection sites where our regional partners harvest an array of our botanicals. Accompanying me on this trip was my esteemed colleague, ethnobotanist Dr. Susan Leopold, Executive Director of United Plant Savers. We wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the horticulture of Bulgaria, meet the people who harvest these plants, observe their traditional methods firsthand, and learn about the culture surrounding plants in the Balkans.

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Cultivating Organic Ashwagandha in India

Ashwagandha is to Ayurveda what Ginseng is to Traditional Chinese Medicine. It’s a cornerstone root used through the ages as a part of daily life. A root so treasured that its popularity has spread globally and its use is common.

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American Ginseng: A Botanical Revolution



Earlier this summer, The Future of Ginseng and Forest Botanicals Symposium was held on the beautiful Monongahela River in Morgantown, West Virginia. This critical event was organized by Dr. Susan Leopold, Executive Director of the nonprofit United Plant Savers, and we were pleased to be in attendance.

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Precious Barks: Developing a Sustainable Tree Harvest

Chief Operations Officer, Jennifer, visits with a group of Fair for Life farmers on this intercropped forest farm with yearround harvestability in three stories of the forest canopy.

Increasing demand for spices acquired from tree barks, such as our beloved cassia (a.k.a. cinnamon) is putting many tree species in peril worldwide. At Mountain Rose Herbs, we are passionate about supporting sustainable harvesting that preserves the life and integrity of the tree, rather than killing it. Our Fair for Life Project farmers in India use methods that are unconventional, harvesting only small sections of the tree bark and then allowing the tree to heal completely before taking more.

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Helping Ensure a Fair Trade Future

A proud Fair for Life farmer shows off our certified organic nutmeg and mace fruits.

The smiles on the faces of the farmers as I handed them organic cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, and clove saplings were ear-to-ear grins. Today, I had the pleasure of hand-delivering the saplings to one of the 60 farms we collaborate with as part of our innovative Fair for Life Project.

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Strengthening Community Roots with Fair Trade Turmeric


Chief Operations Officer, Jennifer, helps field workers prepare our certified organic turmeric farmland for replanting.

As part of my most recent trip to the Mountain Rose Herbs Fair For Life Project in southern India, I visited the remote agricultural village of Kollegala, based in the foothills of the Western Ghats. It’s a fertile farming land with a dry growing season and heavy summer rains. The community in this area makes its living primarily from the sales of turmeric (Curcuma longa). The turmeric growers here represent the largest farming group in our innovative Fair for Life Project, and they grow turmeric exclusively for  Mountain Rose Herbs

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Innovating Fair Trade in India

Chief Operations Officer, Jennifer, in our organic Fair for Life turmeric field post-harvest.

As the Chief Operations Officer for Mountain Rose Herbs, I regularly visit our Fair for Life Project in southern India. Most recently, I traveled to the state of Karnataka to meet our organic farmers and check in on important developments there.

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Jennifer

Jennifer Gerrity is the Chief Operations Officer at Mountain Rose Herbs and has played a key role in establishing the company's botanical sourcing program over the last decade. She has a bachelor’s degree in Plant Science at Rutgers University, where she specialized in propagation and agribusiness management. During her study there, she focused on tropical agriculture, bioremediation, and tissue culture and continued doing research for the university and the EPA after graduation. Jennifer oversees the staff, production, and quality assurance at Mountain Rose Herbs. She takes special interest in the procurement of high quality organic herbs, spices, and teas through domestic farm visits and international travel. She is committed to farm development and outreach in the form of special projects such as our Fair For Life partnership in Karnataka, and cultivating a domestic market for woods grown American Ginseng.

Recent Posts

How Fair Trade Helps Women & Families

Discover how Fair for Life’s fair trade cultivation program helps promote gender equity and social welfare in farming communities across the world.
WRITTEN BY Jennifer

February 25, 2020

Exploring the Resilient Roots of Albanian Agriculture

Albania's cultural and agricultural history are strongly intertwined, and the nation's past challenges have shaped a present still deeply steeped in tradition. Learn how the people and plants of this region have helped one another survive and thrive for countless generations.
WRITTEN BY Jennifer

April 9, 2019

Botanical Traditions and Innovations in Bulgaria

Travel into the Balkan mountains at the peak of the autumn harvest to visit our organic farm and harvest partners in the Bulgarian countryside.
WRITTEN BY Jennifer

February 19, 2019

Cultivating Organic Ashwagandha in India

Curious about where we get this popular herb? See pictures of our organic farm in India where our farmers are cultivating adaptogenic ashwagandha by hand!
WRITTEN BY Jennifer

December 30, 2017

American Ginseng: A Botanical Revolution

Interested in updates on the protection of American Ginseng? In this post, our Executive Director, Jennifer, reflects on the recent ginseng symposium.
WRITTEN BY Jennifer

September 28, 2017

Precious Barks: Developing a Sustainable Tree Harvest

Demand for spices acquired from tree barks is putting many tree species in peril. Find out more about how Mountain Rose Herbs is working with farmers in India to explore unconventional, sustainable methods of harvesting cassia (cinnamon) that preserves the life and integrity of the trees.
WRITTEN BY Jennifer

October 26, 2016

Helping Ensure a Fair Trade Future

See how we help the farmers we work with in India increase yields, biodiversity, and disease resistance in their trees through our Fair for Life Project. Read about our work to distribute free, organic spice tree saplings such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, and clove to farmers.
WRITTEN BY Jennifer

October 19, 2016

Strengthening Community Roots with Fair Trade Turmeric

Mountain Rose Herbs Fair for Life Project in Kollegala, India doesn't just bring us some of the finest turmeric in the world; it also provides premiums to communities to build new wells, irrigation systems, and to repair homes.
WRITTEN BY Jennifer

October 12, 2016

Innovating Fair Trade in India

Mountain Rose Herbs works with Fair for Life to build long-term relationships with our botanical providers, in order to offer mutually beneficial partnerships promoting wellness and sustainability for the land, water, wildlife, farmers, and our customers.
WRITTEN BY Jennifer

October 5, 2016