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Ren Clavey

Ren Clavey

Melbourne-based Chinese herbal medicine dispensary operator; co-founder with his father Steven Clavey of The Herb Grove, an online TCM dispensary serving practitioners across Australia.

Sep 3, 2026

Heavenly Qi

Heavenly Qi

Ren Clavey

Sep 3 · 1h 32m

ClareHOST
72:55
Can you speak to that a little bit?
72:58
So it is, yeah, it is still a jungle out there.
73:01
It's important to know what quality looks like, and you can do that through books or the internet these days.
73:11
But not every herb can come in organic or certified.
73:20
And so you still have... know what it's at now maybe 150 or so of the herbs can you can get them in organic or certified um and that that's obviously really great to have that so we have certified herbs on the herb grove um and some uncertified herbs which we so we pretty much went through and tried to find the ones that tend to have um like high levels of pesticides things like that used in them and make sure that we get all of them in certified um and also a lot of the herbs that are commonly used so we can hit a lot of the you know as many nails in the head as we can when people prescribe um but at the same time it gets really expensive um And as a wholesaler, I guess, I mean, we're a wholesaler, to keep the prices down.
74:19
It's hard to, because Simon Feeney, he brings in amazing herbs from Springwind.
74:28
But if he sold them to us and then we sold them on, the prices would be, I guess, astronomical.

10 MINS LATER

ClareHOST
84:30
And I think many practitioners are very grateful for being able to have access to some of steve's knowledge via you that um that you get to carry on so definitely on behalf of many of the practitioners that i've spoken to we're very grateful for
Heavenly Qi

Heavenly Qi

Ren Clavey

Jun 10 · 1h 32m

ClaireHOST
72:55
Can you speak to that a little bit?
72:58
So it is, yeah, it is still a jungle out there.
73:01
It's important to know what quality looks like, and you can do that through books or the internet these days.
73:11
But not every herb can come in organic or certified.
73:20
And so you still have... know what it's at now maybe 150 or so of the herbs can you can get them in organic or certified um and that that's obviously really great to have that so we have certified herbs on the herb grove um and some uncertified herbs which we so we pretty much went through and tried to find the ones that tend to have um like high levels of pesticides things like that used in them and make sure that we get all of them in certified um and also a lot of the herbs that are commonly used so we can hit a lot of the you know as many nails in the head as we can when people prescribe um but at the same time it gets really expensive um And as a wholesaler, I guess, I mean, we're a wholesaler, to keep the prices down.
74:19
It's hard to, because Simon Feeney, he brings in amazing herbs from Springwind.
74:28
But if he sold them to us and then we sold them on, the prices would be, I guess, astronomical.

10 MINS LATER

ClaireHOST
84:30
And I think many practitioners are very grateful for being able to have access to some of steve's knowledge via you that um that you get to carry on so definitely on behalf of many of the practitioners that i've spoken to we're very grateful for

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