Medicinal Forest
Garden Trust
Promoting Healthy Living with Medicinal Trees and Shrubs
Our focus is on encouraging the sustainable cultivation of medicinal trees and shrubs. We aim to provide information, advice and training to help you decide on the most suitable plants for your growing project, whether a small garden, or a woodland development.
Amazing trees, amazing medicine
Many traditional uses of plants in herbal medicine are based on longstanding experience. Modern research studies bear out observations of benefits in the past, showing how plant constituents can be harvested to promote health and alleviate common complaints. Find out more about trees …
Design your own medicinal forest garden
Join our online course in designing the medicinal forest garden. Find out about permaculture design principles and herbal medicine. Get suggestions for any growing situation from a garden to a field, orchard or woodland. Find out more …
Get help with our consultancy offer
You may want advice on including medicinal trees and shrubs in a growing project. Based on discussion with you, we can offer an outline plan and help you to get started. A fixed fee applies. Find out more …
Support us!
A key focus for the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust is to encourage more sustainable cultivation and harvest of herbal medicines. Every contribution or purchase helps to support the Trust, and we hope that you will also get involved.
Check out our blog posts
In addition to an occasional newsletter we aim to produce blog posts about topics of relevance to growing with a medicinal forest garden. We hope to include recipes, research and other information to help anyone interested in medicinal forest gardening. See our blog …
Get the handbook
The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook is an authoritative and well-referenced text. It contains heaps of information with sections on design, establishment, propagation, harvest and making herbal remedies. A detailed dirctory of 4o medicinal trees and shrubs is included, along with discussion of commercial possibilities. More details of the book…
Threats to Medicinal Trees and Shrubs?
We aim to help!
A large part of the world supply of medicinal plants is still based on wild harvesting. As habitats are disrupted by change of use to agriculture or environmental disasters, plants are becoming rarer or even disappearing. We can help ourselves by growing more medicinal plants sustainably.
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