Community Collaborations
Herbal Garden Photos
AOMA is one of fifteen OM schools to receive part of the High Falls Gardens Fund grant. Under the auspices of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation in Great Barrington, MA, the fund was awarded a $200,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a three-year program, Botanical Studies for Oriental Medicine. This program is an expansion of the Student Gardens program created in 2001 by Robert Newman, an Oriental Medicine practitioner based in Los Angeles, CA and Jean Giblette of High Falls Gardens, an Asian medicinal plant farm in Columbia County, NY.
AOMA began work on our Oriental herbal garden at the American Botanical Council in the fall of 2006. Even though we had "solarized" to kill off the Bermuda grass, we still had to pull up lots of roots. AOMA student, Diane Johnson put in many long hours helping.
Adrienne Kam, AOMA student, helped dig the trenches where we placed the first layer of limestone for the construction of the raised bed.
The garden is in the shape of a Ba Gua. We started most of the seeds in a greenhouse and transplanted them outdoors in the spring. We also re-seeded outside with some of the varieties that didn't originally sprout in the greenhouse.
Come by the American Botanical Council and learn more about live Chinese herbs!