Ethnobotany Garden

Update July 2021

Thanks to the hard work of many, many, volunteers , funding from the State of New Mexico Department of Tourism and private donors, and  donations of materials from  local businesses, the Traditional Medicine Garden is finally taking shape!   Plants that were put in last year are getting bigger and new ones have been added this spring.  At this point there are about 73 specimens of 37 species, plus more that will be planted in July. Still to come this summer is the installation of the main sign and several interpretive signs.  The benches will wait until after the fence is replaced.

 Interested in learning more about some of these plants and their medicinal uses? Keep an eye out for announcements of tours/classes for GNPS members!  If you would like to get on the list for volunteer opportunities, please send an email to silvercitygardens@gmail.com.

This garden is a collaborative project of:

The Town of Silver City

The Gila Native Plant Society

The Sovereign Nation of the Chiricahua Apache 

The Silver City Herbalists Guild

This garden has been made possible by generous donations from

State of New Mexico Department of Tourism (NM True)

Freeport MacMoran

Mountain Ridge Ace Hardware

Foxworth Galbraith

Plants of the Southwest

Desert Woman Botanicals

Bear Creek Herbs

Adobe Techniques

Southwest Concrete and Paving

Mastercraft Metals

Thanks to the many volunteers who helped this happen:

GNPS Garden Design Committee - Wendy Graves, Angela Flanders, Elroy Limmer, Susan Campbell, Naava Koenigsberg

Traditional Medicine Garden Committee - Annie, Joy, Alex, Eric, Monica, Naava,

Tricia Hurley and the Aldo Leopold Charter School YCC program  - labor

Gary Stailey and LDS Church  - labor

Gabe Farley - website

Mimi Kamp - images

Russ Kleinman - images

Joe Saenz and Kirsten Kairos - Apache plant names

Dr. Gilbert Arizaga - Spanish plant names

Patrice Mutchink, Ella Jaz Kirk and Heart of the Gila

Donna Chesner - plant pickup

Susanne Gershenson - design consultant