We must act on a worldwide basis to ensure resilience and health for future generations.
For countless communities around the world, the presence of medicinal plants and the traditional knowledge of their properties and uses are crucial factors for ensuring health and prosperity.
Sacred Seeds became part of United Plant Savers in 2015. Sacred Seeds is a global network of botanical sanctuaries preserving biodiversity and plant knowledge through living gardens, containing locally important plants focused on medicinals but including those of ceremonial, food, and craft use.
The Sacred Seeds network started with the medicinal plant garden located at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge in Costa Rica, similar to how United Plant Savers Goldenseal Sanctuary in Ohio became the vision for the Botanical Sanctuary Network. Uniting the work of UpS and the Sacred Seeds foundational gardens of which there are currently 31, we intend to grow our Botanical Sanctuary Network and the Foundation Gardens in an effort to safeguard traditional plant knowledge and the native habitats in which these sacred plants thrive
Sacred Seeds got its start being managed at the William L. Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden by ethnobotanist Ashley Glenn, in collaboration with New Chapter.
United Plant Savers would like to honor New Chapter for its continued support towards plant conservation and Sacred Seeds founders and advisors Tom Newmark, Dr. Michael Balick, Dr. Rainer Bussmann, and Steven Farrell.
Sacred Seeds leader, Rafael Ocampo speaking about his passion for Medicinal Plants and his work with the Luna Nueva garden.
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Missouri Botanical Garden
The Missouri Botanical Garden welcomes close to one million visitors a year and is considered one of the world’s most prestigious centers for botanical research and science education. Sacred Seeds – Missouri, located in the Kemper Center for Home Gardening, …
Become A Sponsor
If you or your organization are interested in joining the movement by becoming an official Sacred Seeds sponsor, please contact: Susan Leopold Director, Sacred Seeds Program E-mail: Thank you!
Santuario Semillas Sagradas, Finca Luna Nueva
The first Sacred Seed garden was created at Finca Luna Nueva, an organic and Biodynamic® rainforest education center and lodge in Costa Rica. Conceptualized by Steven Farrell, president of Finca Luna Nueva, Tom Newmark, Chairman of New Chapter and Rafael …
Sacred Seeds Terms of Use
While many of these items are made publicly-accessible, they are not all public domain — the vast majority of the images, and a number of the texts, are copyrighted to Sacred Seeds and a number of other texts are still …
