Medicinal Seed Bank & Biomedicinal Teaching Toolkit

Medicinal Seed Bank is a databank project, lecture series and field teaching program used for the study and community sharing of medicinal seeds in Brazil. It was developed in combination with the production of biomedicinal teaching kits, which contained a microscope, beacons, slides, a medicinal plant catalogue, a field identification guide, a teaching manual, seeds, biomedicinal samples and soil analysis collection materials, that were assembled and distributed to Indigenous and local community leaders for pedagogical use in schools and gardens in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia. The work was conducted in consultation with the DataplaMt project at the Minas Gerais Botantical Garden medicinal studies program.