We are Gunis (traditional healers) and medicinal plants conservation farmers from the Mewar Region of Rajasthan in India. The Gunis among us take our name from guna, which is a Sanskrit word that has three meanings: knowledge, healing and virtue. Anyone can have knowledge, but Gunis are those of us who use our traditional knowledge virtuously to heal people. Our dharma, which is translated as “the path of virtue”, is to ensure our communities’ wellbeing in accordance with our virtues that underscore selfless service and caring for the environment. To protect our traditional knowledge we must locally conserve and sustainably use our local resources like medicinal plants, and actively use and share our knowledge. As a group we conserve medicinal plants through home herbal gardens and Dharam bageechis (selfmanaged medicinal plants development areas) and share our knowledge with each other and our Shishya (Disciple or student) to ensure its continued development. In this way, the valuing of our knowledge by our communities leads to conservation, and the sustainable use of local resources viz. medicinal plants, minerals, etc. is leading to the development of traditional knowledge. We include in our group small farmers or forest dwellers and tribals who make an important contribution by conserving and growing medicinal plants, often focusing on endangered species that have been over-harvested in the wild. This conservation farming is a critical part of ensuring the sustainability of specific species endemic to Rajasthan.