About the Gardens

What’s Coming to Sagrada Botanical Gardens

Plant Medicine

The gardens will have sections of specific plants designating what plants are beneficial to various health conditions. For instance, one section of the garden will have plants that are beneficial to helping with the eyes and another part of the garden will have plants that are beneficial to the immune system. Sagrada Botanical Gardens aims to give the community an opportunity to experience how plants can be beneficial to our overall well-being while offering alternative ways of thinking to traditional medicine and wellness. In addition to the medicinal benefits of the plants, they offer so much more such as; a space to enjoy the beauty of nature, apothecary use, cooking use, seeds, they attract pollinators, and the space becomes a wildlife habitat.

Farmstand with Goods For Sale

The gardens at Sagrada will offer vegetables and fruit orchards, all grown using regenerative land practices that rebuild organic matter and living biodiversity in soil, which produces increasingly nutrient-dense food year after year-while sequestering excess atmospheric carbon underground to reverse climate change. We believe everyone has the right to have access to food grown and cared for in this way and our desire is to show the community what’s possible through experience and education.

On-Site Educational Workshops in 2023 & 2024: 

1. Water Conservation: This workshop shares information about conserving water resources, creating swails for orchards, digging, and planting orchards.
2. Land Readiness: Land Readiness is a regenerative farm practice using ancient methods of cultivating food and medicine. These methods cultivate a carbon-neutral environment on the property. Attendees will learn about these practices including Lasagna Gardening using cardboard and wood chips to break down grasses for deep, rich soil. They can use these practices in their own home gardens.
3. Themed Gardens: This workshop shares information on various plants and how they impact body parts. The attendees receive landscape plans and learn to create their own healthful gardens on their home properties.
4. Companion Planting: This workshop shares information on the placement of herbs, flowers, trees, and flora without the use of herbicides and pesticides. The participants may receive seeds to plant in their own home gardens.
5. Chicken Coop: This workshop shares information on building and maintaining a chicken coop and caring for chickens. Attendees will build a chicken coop.

Other workshops will be created and conducted as the gardens mature and guest speakers provide additional workshop options. Sagrada Botanical Gardens will bring in guest teachers/experts in their fields. These activities will be conducted year-round by staff, guest speakers, and volunteers of the organization.

Bees

Pollinators balance our ecosystems, our economies, and provide healing properties to both the human body and the planet. The honey bee is by far the world’s most significant pollinator. Without the honey bee, humanity cannot survive. The bees in the garden will have a chemical free environment in which to do their jobs and the honey produced will be for sale. In addition, the garden will be holding workshops to show the community the benefits and ease in which to do urban beekeeping.

Biophilic Pond