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!
While we have wrapped up plant sales for the year, plants are still available, and it is still a great time to plant! Below is a list of everything we are growing. Stay tuned as next year we will be adding more native plants and perennial vegetables to the Nursery. Most exciting to me, is that 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!
While I don’t have a Plant Sale scheduled 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 Plant Sale
Stay Tuned as we will host another Plant Sale in the Fall.
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. 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.