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.
Sacred Seeds Articles
Goldenseal Sanctuary
The United Plant Savers’ 360-acre Botanical Sanctuary sits in the Appalachian Foothills of Southeastern Ohio. Thanks to optimal soil conditions and unique topography, the Sanctuary is a refuge for wild medicinal plants which occur in abundance throughout the property. Historically …
Punta Mona Center for Sustainable Living & Education
Punta Mona Center for Sustainable Living and Education, founded in 1995, is a beach front botanical collection, permaculture farm, and education and retreat center, dedicated to sustainable living practices, environmental education, cultivation, exploration and propagation of useful plants that can dramatically …
Forest School for Traditional Health Practitioners – PROMETRA Uganda
PROMETRA Uganda was founded in 2000 as a response to poor health conditions in the country and inadequate modern health services. Its focus is on traditional health care, a form of medicine that is comparatively accessible and affordable. The mission …
Chaikoni Jonibo Garden
The inhabitants of the Shipibo community of San Francisco of Yarinacocha in Peruvian Amazonia, and more particularly the ACOMACISHICON association, have been engaged for more than ten years in the conservation of the Chaikoni Jonibo ethnobotanic garden. Thanks to their …
