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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Databases
[su_row][su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””][/su_column] [su_column size=”2/3″ center=”no” class=””]Tropicos Global botanical collection data including distribution information, correct species names, images, and published botanical articles.[/su_column][/su_row] [su_row][su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””][/su_column] [su_column size=”2/3″ center=”no” class=””]USDA Plant Pages For complete US plant data, including distribution …
Books
[su_row][su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””][/su_column] [su_column size=”2/3″ center=”no” class=””]Plants of Semillas Sagradas: An Ethnomedicinal Garden in Costa Rica By Rafael Ocampo, BSc. and Michael J. Balick, Ph.D., Finca Luna Nueva Extractos de Costa Rica, S.A., 2009. A FREE Download is available.[/su_column][/su_row] …
