ABC’s Annual Celebration and Botanical Excellence Awards to stream online May 25 The American Botanical Council’s 16th Annual Celebration and Botanical Excellence Awards will stream live on Tuesday, May 25, at 5pm EDT on ABC’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. The one-hour, free-to-attend online program is open to consumers and those in industry, academia, research, media, and government and is free to attend. ABC’s first Botanical Excellence Awards were given in 2006. Recipients are chosen based on their contributions to the herbal and botanical community during the previous year. “ABC has always been a science organization, and most of our awards reflect ABC’s scientific research orientation,” said ABC Founder and Executive Director Mark Blumenthal.