About Medicine Garden

Our goal at the Medicine Garden is to empower our community through plants. We do this by offering organically grown Medicinal Plant Starts, Seed and Medicine at our Monthly Medicinal Marketplaces, Herb Shops and local Nurseries in the Portland area. In addition, we offer educational community gatherings, classes and garden consultations to help us deepen our relationship with the plants and place. Our small-scale approach allows us to sink into the plants needs as well as our communities.

Medicine Garden was started by Gradey Proctor. Gradey is a botanist with a relentless passion for the flora and fungi of Oregon's forests. Born in a place without intact ecosystems Gradey fell hopelessly in love with the Northwest when he arrived in the 90's. Gradey studied at the Columbine’s School honing his botanical skills, and has since worked for Bark, a nonprofit that advocates and protects Mt. Hood. His love of plants spread to nurseries, CSA farms and his own yard where he raises medicinal plants starts. Now Gradey works and lives on 7 acres of Clackamas Land, continually exploring ways where ecology and gardening meet. Gradey has taught gardening, botany and ecology at the Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies for the last 15 years.