Nurturing Nature® Group Consultants · Miami, Florida

Dr. Jeffrey S. Block

Founder, Nurturing Nature

American physician botanist and cannabinoid medicine thought leader — practicing the art and science of nurturing nature.

Portrait of Dr. Jeffrey S. Block in 2023, wearing a grey jacket and blue shirt, framed artwork behind him — Jeffrey S. Block, MD — Founder, Nurturing Nature®

Board-Certified Anesthesiology, 1987–present
UF/IFAS Certified Master Gardener
Chapter Author, De Gruyter 2023
Block Botanical Gardens · 30 Years

What We Do

Four practices. One discipline: the art and science of nurturing nature.

Consulting, horticulture, and clinician education — delivered from a working specimen garden in Miami, Florida.

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Botanical Medicine Healthcare Services

Strategic Translational Planning

Translational medicine is a young science, and it is only now being applied to botanical medicines such as Cannabis species. Technology shifts fast enough to turn today's competitive advantage into tomorrow's liability.

Legislative action compounds that risk — it can reclassify a botanical medicine outright, and with it the markets open to you.

Nurturing Nature® Group Consultants keeps producers, processors, dispensaries, and the organizations and technology interests behind them ahead of their segment — through contingency planning for disruption, whether medical, technological, or legislative.

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Agricultural Industry Horticulture Services

Continuous Quality Improvement for Horticultural Success

Dr. Block applies the same health-and-wellness principles that govern his medical practice to hybridizing and growing robust botanicals. Miami's Block Botanical Gardens is the proof: intelligent landscape design, award-winning rare plants, and a result that is visually spectacular. Its staff sustains horticultural excellence across many of the world's most beautiful plants, adapted to South Florida's subtropical climate.

A community thought leader, physician-scientist, and master gardener visionary, he brings a generation of experience in high-quality, sustainable horticulture — with conservation-friendly irrigation responsibly sustaining the gardens' extraordinary specimens.

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Virtual or In-Person Presentations

What You Need To Know Presented Live Online

Our lectures cover the ethnobotanical and cultural use of a plant now known to carry therapeutic balances of phytocannabinoid and terpenoid compounds — chemistry that is challenging the world's foremost researchers and awaiting responsibly educated clinicians.

Documented as a botanical health and wellness medicine for more than 5,000 years, the cannabis plant's biochemistry, mechanisms of action, and anecdotal-versus-evidence-based safety and efficacy profiles are now under intense scientific and legislative scrutiny.

We know the pressure on responsible physicians who endeavor to “first, do no harm.” Pragmatic healers are morally bound by their oaths of medicine — which is why the bioethical platform concerning cannabinoid medicines' abuse and potential clinical use is a physician's essential guiding light.

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Block Botanical Gardens: a mature ponytail palm specimen on a manicured lawn with visitors walking the garden path

Horticulture Experts

Nurturing Nature Sets Sustainable Standards

Set in an ancient oak hammock, thirty years of dedicated horticultural work now complements a naturally rich South Florida Everglades fresh-water ecosystem. The gardens' commercial roots reach back over a century, to a mango and avocado tree farm; the land alongside historic Sunset Drive was later cleared for homesites, earning the name “Sunset Grove” during Miami's roaring-20's real-estate boom.

Nationally recognized “Champion Trees,” rare fruit trees, and flowering tree canopies shelter dedicated specialty gardens. Rare palms, cycads, aroids, ferns, orchids, and bromeliads are found throughout the property.

“Sustain subtropical ornamental plant specimens of extraordinarily high horticultural merit that compare favorably among the finest seen anywhere in the world!”
Block Botanical Gardens — custodial mission

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Published Authority

Cannabis Chemistry and Biology Fundamentals

ElSohly (Ed.) – De Gruyter 2023

Chapter 1 Authored by Dr. Block

Film — “The History of Cannabis: A Story of Coevolution and Human Discovery” (2023). The History of Cannabis Video

Our Founder

Jeffrey S Block, MD

American Physician Botanist and Cannabinoid Medicine Thought Leader

Dr. Block is an integrative medicine healthcare consultant specializing in botanical medicines; and the Founder of Nurturing Nature® Group Consultants.

Education and Training

Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry/Psychology — Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Doctor of Medicine — University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
Residency, Anesthesiology — Jackson Memorial and Affiliate Hospitals, Miami, FL.
Fellowship, Pain Management and Addiction Medicine — Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL.
University of Florida / IFAS Certified Master Gardener.

Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Specialties

American Board of Anesthesiology (1987 to present).

Professional Memberships

American Society of Anesthesiologists
Florida Society of Anesthesiologists
Florida Medical Association
Miami-Dade County Medical Association

Review Dr. Block’s Summary Resume (PDF) Our Founder Jeffrey Block

Recognition & Affiliations

American Board of Anesthesiology
UF/IFAS Certified Master Gardener
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Florida Society of Anesthesiologists
Florida Medical Association
Miami-Dade County Medical Association

Where the gardens are

Block Botanical Gardens
Historic Sunset Drive
Miami, Florida USA

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Dr. Block in a blue suit standing among a dense panoramic collection of potted anthuriums, aroids and bromeliads

“The art and science of nurturing nature.”

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Consulting, lectures, and horticultural guidance — from one physician botanist.

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