Naturopathic medicine experienced ‘near death’ (200 NDs left in North America) in the late 60’s and early 70s, leaving students in the modern era with a huge gap to fill—a near “broken lineage” of knowledge transmission. There were few specifically naturopathic books and fewer ND journal publications and articles. FNMI has been not only writing, codifying, synthesizing and editing, we have been finding, amassing, interviewing, transcribing, and organizing this lost body of knowledge. This “knowledge” then has had to be“codified” through a unique and resource intensive process. Our work matters because: