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The Apothecary's Garden, Revisiting Medicinal Plants

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

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Medicine Garden Project - What's the Status on the Garden?

Greg Stuslott is a pharmacist by training. He's been working at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Maryland for 10 years. In 2016, he took it over and started growing plants from period medical and pharmacy textbooks about 1820s to 1880s. The garden now contains 30-40 plants that were recognized as having medicinal value on official Compendia list.

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