UPDATE: Our campaign has ended but seeds and kits are still available on our website!  Click here to purchase a seed kit and start your medicine garden this season!!!

Medicinal Garden Seed Kit

A beautifully packaged kit containing 24 seed packets of commonly used medicinal herbs for you to start or expand your herb garden. This is a great way for herbalists and gardeners to take their relationship with plants to another level. The kit also makes a one of a kind gift for that plant lover in your life!  Kits will be mailed out during the first two weeks of April.

Included seed packets:

The Pretreated Seed Set

The seeds of many cold hardy plants need be in a cold/moist environment for 1-3 months to simulate the natural conditions of winter before they will break dormancy and germinate.   The Pretreated Seed Set contains seed that has already received this special treatment and will be ready to plant.   We know by experience that it is hard to plan ahead to pretreat seed in time to plant in the spring.  That is why we are doing some of the work for you!  

The seed in this set needs to be refrigerated until planting and cannot be mailed due to fluctuating temperatures during shipment.  The set will be available for pick up during the week of 4/3 at the following locations:  Grian Herbs in Montpelier, Railyard Apothecary in Burlington, Buffalo Mountain Coop in Hardwick and Willow Crossing Healing Arts & Botanicals in Jeffersonville.  You can choose your pick up location during checkout and a voucher and details will be emailed to you later.

Included Seed Packets:

Angelica, Black Cohosh, Russian Rhodiola, Tibetian Gentian, & Goldenseal

About Milkweed Medicinals

Milkweed Medicinals is owned and run by Jessica Manchester and is going into it's third year of operation.   For the first two seasons Jessica focused on live plant sales and learning how to harvest and clean seed crops.  This past summer she was honored to be able to work collaboratively with Melanie and Jeff Carpenter of Zack Woods Herb Farm to grow and harvest seed from their certified organic farm. 

Milkweed Medicinals' main mission is to form more collaborations with local herb growers in order to secure stock seed from the best genetics of their crops.  With our challenging weather patterns and changing climate here in the Northeast, it is going to be essential that we start using locally sourced and acclimated seed for cultivation.  

Our goal is to ensure healthy and well adapted plants in the future.  To this end, we will be  working closely with growers who experience significant crop loss due to weather, disease, or pests.   The seed from the surviving plants contain the strongest genetics for growing successfully in our region.  Saving seed from crops with exceptional potency and vigor will also be a focus because the best medicine starts with the seed.  This process was an important aspect of farming that has gone by the wayside due to the economic and time pressures that modern farmers experience.  We would love to help close that loop and assist local medicinal farmers in gaining control of their seed quality and supply.

We will be continuing this process with Kingsbury Market Garden in  Warren, VT and Zack Woods Farm in Hyde Park, VT.   Both farms will be using our seed for many of their crops this coming season and allowing us to harvest high quality seed from their farms.

Seeds are magical.  They literally hold the genetic material of our future.  To be able to hold that in your hand is quite empowering!