The Mission of Sacred Seeds

Sacred Seeds is a network of sanctuaries preserving biodiversity and plant knowledge. We accomplish this through living gardens containing locally important plants, focusing on medicinals but including those of ceremonial, food, and craft value.

We explore every avenue to preserve diverse ecosystems, threatened traditions, and communities that recognize the valuable asset of their plant knowledge. We work hand-in-hand with the local people to determine if and how a Sacred Seeds sanctuary would effectively promote their traditions and conservation of their plants. We enlist the expertise, unique skills and resources of the community and together we create useful, pragmatic, sustainable solutions.

We strive to make all of our Sacred Seeds sanctuaries thriving productive gardens, to the benefit of the communities involved, the plants grown, and the world at large. We innovate and adapt as we gain experience from our gardens, and share this experience with the world.

Sacred Seeds Sanctuaries of the WLBC

The William L. Brown Center has created sanctuaries in conjunction with our research colleagues and communities.  Our Sacred Seeds sanctuaries have become a beneficial tool for local conservation, designed to address goals and needs outlined by the community that will be fostering, managing, and using these spaces.  For more information on the Sacred Seeds program as a whole click here.  For individual profiles of our the WLBC’s Sacred Seeds sanctuaries follow the links below:

Sacred Seeds at Missouri Botanical Garden

Semillas Sagradas de Huamachuco

Hehaka Ska Win at Crow Creek Indian Reservation

Ambalabe, Madagascar

Jardin Botanico de Semillas Sagradas de Chan Chan

Sitting Bull College at Standing Rock Reservation