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 is a global non-profit creating and supporting plant sanctuaries that address the rapid loss of biodiversity and cultural knowledge through living gardens, containing locally important plants focused on medicinals but including those of ceremonial, food, and craft use.
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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Forest Garden Organics (Pvt) Ltd
A 20 acre land with food and medicinal plants co-ordinates with animals with maximum re-cycling of waste. At A Glance Region Asia Country Sri Lanka Area Rambukkana, Close to Pinnawala Elephant Ophanage, Sri lanka Latitude 0° 0′ 0″ N Longitude …
Forest Garden Organics
Located in Rambukkana, close to the Pinnawala Elephant Ophanage in Sri Lanka, Forest Garden Organics focuses on creating food forests. The 20-acre garden contains edible plants such as coconut, spices, herbs, and vegetable species like yams. The garden is visited by school …
Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden
The aim of the Pha Tad Ke project is to create a regional research centre with the first living collection of plants in Laos, dedicated to research, both in situ and ex situ, for both educational and leisure purposes. As …
Florida School of Holistic Living Bodhi Garden
Our 501c3 nonprofit organization has three gardens we steward. Our main public property is the “Bodhi Garden” is a 40′ x 40′ herb garden in the heart of urban Downtown Orlando. The garden is surrounded by an eclectic and supportive …
