Sacred Seeds Garden

Sacred Seeds Garden, Colombia

Restocking

Our project is creating and planting a botanical garden in the Orinoco River basin to conserve the traditional medicinal trees and plants of this region. The project is being done with indigenous guidance as well as a knowledge sharing agreement with Missouri Botanical Gardens in the USA.

43,249 Trees funded of 43,229
15,621.1 T CO2 compensated
1,644 Followers
December 2016

The moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa) is another one of those trees of life important to indigenous peoples. Its fruits are delicious, the seeds provide an oil, the leaves roof thatching, the leaves and trunk fibers for clothes, hammocks, ropes and more, the trunks were also used

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03 Dec 2016
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