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Sacred Seeds in Costa Rica

Saving Endangered Medicinal Plants

Foremost U.S. Ethnobotanists Dr. Balick and Dr. James Duke take you inside Semillas Sagradas, or Sacred Seeds, a sanctuary for endangered medicinal plants located in the neotropics of Costa Rica. With the help of New Chapter, it has become a sanctuary for the genetic material of some of the world’s most important — and endangered — medicinal plants.

Click here for your FREE download of the brand new book Semillas Sagradas by Rafael Ocampo and Michael J. Balick. This book covers a great variety of sacred seeds from the gardens at Luna Nueva and is illustrated with full color photographics.