‘Sage is your friend, not your smudge stick’: Taking back a native plant September 2, 2022 Home Explore The Naturalist's Journal ‘Sage is your friend, not your smudge stick’: Taking back a native plant Share FacebookTwitterEmail In their short documentary “Saging the World,” filmmakers Rose Ramirez and Deborah Small explain the importance of the plant in pollination, how the native plant differs from the herb found in supermarkets which originated in Albania, and the threat to its existence as the land on which it grows is being shared by non-Native people contorting its use.