Welcome to the Medicine Garden

We are a Medicinal Plant Nursery and 2-acre organic Herb Farm. We firmly believe plants are our teachers and allies, providing us with knowledge, nourishment and support as medicine. Through Education, Plant Starts and Medicine we strive to foster resilience, health and community through our love of plants. We know they can help you too!

2026 marks the year all plants come from seed, root or stem cuttings from plants grown right here in Oregon City! This means that all our plants will have a strong sense of place and know how to thrive in NW gardens! It is co-evolutionary!

I am offfering one more Plant Sale and this is gonna be special! All 4-inch starts and seeds will be HALF PRICE! Plant starts are just $3 and Seed Packs for $2! Plus, a wide selection of shrubs and larger pots are marked down too! I still have an excellent selection of plants that are in great shape, they are just ready to go in the ground. The Sale is Saturday, July 25th from 10 to1. And note this one is in Portland at 243 SE 78th.

if you can’t make it, folks can come out and shop by appointment in Oregon City. I am often here Wednesday and Fridays. Other days I can generally bring pre-paid orders into SE Portland for pickup. Reach out if you’d like to get yourself some new medicinal babies for your space.

I am also offering Garden consultations again for the summer months! For just $120 I will deliver TEN 4-inch medicinal plant starts of your choosing and hang out for 90 minutes in your garden, getting you all the know-how to be successful with your new plant friends! With my background in Botany, Ecology and the Medicinal uses of plants I am sure to have new perspectives to bring to your space.

With our time, we can also ID plants or weeds in your space, identify microclimates in your landscape so we can find suitable places for your new plant friends, etc. If you are starting out in a new space I can also help with a design that’ll fit your food, medicine and time needs. Really, however you’d like to use the time to grow better.

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So we are going to be bringing back the bi-monthly newsletter! I am hoping to send the first one along February 1st so let me know if you’d like to join! I will be sharing gardening tips, feature a plant that has really been talking to me lately, share where you can purchase these hard-to-find medicines, bits of herbal wisdom, when you can come visit the farm, botany, mycology plus new classes and workshops that are coming up!

Upcoming events and classes

Medicinal Harvest Market

Saturday, November 21st from 11 to 3 at 243 SE 78th in Portland OR

Are you looking for organic, locally grown, dried medicinal herbs and fresh roots to stock your apothecary this winter? Herbs to round out Holiday medicine making? A few more medicinal plants to fill holes in the garden? If so, we encourage you to join us for our Harvest Festival Pop-up to see what we’ve grown! We’ll be around from 11am to 3pm!

All this medicine was lovingly grown right here in Oregon City, this year, so you know you will be getting high quality! If you want to make sure we have what you’re after, we are happy to set aside pre-paid orders! Here are just some of things we will have on hand:

- All last year seed packs are just $1!
- Dried herbs of plants like: Tulsi, Calendula, Red Clover, Mullein, Oat Straw, Raspberry Leaf, Skullcap, Mint(s), Cramp Bark, Oregon Grape and so much more
- Freshly dug Roots: Elecampane, Aralia, Ashwagandha, Burdock, Angelica, Marshmallow and Valerian
- Fresh and Frozen: Milky Oats, Poplar Buds and Hawthorn Berries
- Various medicinal preparations like Tinctures and Elderberry syrup
- Magical bundles of Sagebrush and Mugwort
- Select medicinal plant starts (to be sure I bring into town what you are after contact me through the website
- Magical Minerals gathered by the kiddos and I throughout the NW

Tending the Winter Landscape

Class will meet on the following Saturdays from 10a to 4p:
January 23rd, February 6th, February 20th, and March 6th

This series is a hands-on, deep dive into understanding and tending place during the winter months. Participants will learn the secrets to identifying plants throughout the year and recognizing ecological features that tell the narrative of place. With these basics in mind, we will explore hands-on activities to tend the landscape while also providing ourselves with food and medicine. We will see that we can provide for our needs while also improving the landscape around us!

Class will be held at the beautiful Mahonia Land Trust just outside Oregon City, with carpools available from Portland. Folks will take home a bounty of what the land has to offer: medicinal preparations, a mushroom log, plant starts, and the know-how to better serve the landscape around us.

Skills you will learn: Winter twig ID, Ecology, Finding microclimates and planting native plants, Winter tree pruning basics, How to safely fell a tree, Tapping Maple Trees for syrup, Planting mushrooms into a landscape for food and habitat, Harvesting winter plant medicine and Making herbal preparations to new a few.

Class cost is: $500, including materials. Early bird discount: $450 if registered and paid by December 15th.

Gardening for Medicine Class Series

This series will help you create a medicinal landscape in your backyard, working with easy to grow medicines. We will study herbalism, basic gardening techniques, and medicine making on an established two-acre farm. You will leave the program with over 25 herbs stocked up in your apothecary, plus get tons of starts and seeds to move into your space. As the class meets over a 6-month garden season we will get to sink into the long-term rhythm of tending plants. All of this in a tight knit community of just 8 other students.

The Gardening for Medicine series will have a cohort meeting Wednesdays and another gathering on Saturdays, one day a month from May to October. Dates are coming soon! Both options are held from 10am to 4:30pm for a total of 40 hours.  The total cost, including monthly herbal harvest of four plants, handouts, seeds and starts galore is $800. Click below, email gardeningformedicine@yahoo.com or call (503) 489 3483 to schedule a time to make sure this is a good fit for you!

Community Supported Herbalism

We also offer a CSH to get our community fresh medicinal plants gathered at their optimal harvest time and with the deepest respect, so that you and yours will be empowered to navigate most common illness. Our goal is to provide a year’s supply of medicine from each plant, and a well-rounded medicinary by the end of the season. Our small-scale approach allows us to sink into the needs of the plants as well as our community.

As we continue to grow we are now offering pick-up options each month too! So if you are already growing certain things, want to double up on something special, or try out a new plant we can help you out! Each month you will get 5 different plant medicines to work with and we will provide you with 7 or 8 options to choose from!

If you are new to Herbalism we host a 2-hour gathering to provide a little back story with each plant, discusss medicine making and cover some herbailsm basics. Plus you will be bringing home quality plants, the best teachers there are!

Pick-ups occur monthly on the following Friday evenings from 3:30 to 6:30 in Portland. The following Saturday pick-ups are an option too, just let us know if that is better for your schedule. Location for gathering your herbs is in SE Portland.
May 28th, June 21st, July 27th, August 29th, September 26th, & October 24th

The cost for a share for our 6-month CSH is just $400 for the whole season! Payment plans are available. A great thing to do with a friend too!

Community Day

Want to come hang out at the Medicine Garden Farm and see what’s growing?! This year we will host community members to come tour the farm and nursery! we will also take on a larger land project together while we all discuss the magic of plants, learn about growing medicine and grow our community of plant people!

Our next gathering will be on Friday, March 28th from 10 to 2:30. To keep things to a manageable size, I am asking folks to email if they are able to come. I will also work to arrange carpools from Portland and Oregon City. Let me know if you have any questions or ideas.