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Sacred Seeds Joins With L'Herboretum

Sacred Seeds has joined forces with L'Herboretum, a conservation center in the Loire Valley of France. This marks the first European garden in the Sacred Seeds network.   Read the official press release attached below:

Lessons Learned from the Bastyr University Sacred Seeds Ethnobotanical Trail

  We began the work to implement our Sacred Seeds trail vision in 2011.  We already had some trails in our surrounding woodland so it seemed a relatively simple matter of creating a link between the woodland space to an open space.  We had a nice space that would serve as a potential subalpine meadow representing more of the open space native plants, like bulbs and grasses.  To create this we had a consultant come and take a look at it to see what sort of landscaping might...

American Botanical Council Creates a Sacred Seeds Sanctuary at ABC Headquarters

The American Botanical Council’s mission is to provide education using science-based and traditional information to promote responsible use of herbal medicine — serving the public, researchers, educators, healthcare professionals, industry and media. The ABC Sacred Seed Sanctuary is located on its Case Mill Homestead in Austin, Texas. Much of the focus is to incorporate the traditional medicines of the Native American tribes, Mexican immigrants, and European settlers of the area. Please enjoy...

Collecting Native Tree Seeds

  Dexter Dombro is a founder of Reserva Natural Pedregoza, a newly inducted Sacred Seeds sanctuary located in the Orinoco River basin in Vichada, Colombia.   Here he explains, in detail, one facet of Pedregoza's long term multi-species conservation strategy: propagating native tree species.