About

Richo is an internationally recognized expert on the cultivation, processing and usage of medicinal plants. He is the author of the popular herbal, Making Plant Medicine. His life-long interest in seed saving lead to extensive travel and plant exploration, largely in the USA and Africa but also in South America, China and Europe. This collection of seeds, including numerous unique introductions and rare plants as well as many common medicinal plants and permacultural trees, is currently conserved and multiplied in his greenhouses and gardens.

Strictly Medicinal, LLC is the name of this organic seed company and nursery based in Williams, Oregon. The mission is to sow seeds worldwide for the benefit of people, plants and the planet.

Latest Posts

• Extremely simple seed planting techniques

  Learn from the plants.  Do it. . . for the plants.   — Richo Cech…

• Wild Lettuce, Spontaneous Generation in the Garden of Diversity

  We like to leave our best plants to produce seeds, seeds that may be…

• Pressing Herbal Tinctures—Lessons Learned and Questions Answered

  Early disasters.  Pressing tinctures was my first herbal job, and I approached it quite…