Mountain Gardens is a botanical garden of useful plants featuring the largest collection of native Appalachian and Chinese medicinal herbs in the Eastern US, organically grown at the foot of the Black Mountains in Western North Carolina. Our specialties include: native and oriental medicinal herbs, wild foods, perennial vegetables, craft plants and other ethnobotanicals. We offer for sale seeds, plants, fresh and dried herb material, and other preparations. We present useful information regarding the cultivation and uses of these species, as well as our philosophy of Paradise Gardening.
Mountain Gardens has recently become a registered 501(c)3 educational nonprofit! A dedicated team has come together under this nonprofit to support Joe, to continue the recovery from last year’s devastating fire, and to begin the transition to the next generation of gardeners and stewards. We are currently raising funds to accomplish all of these crucial tasks. You can make a tax-deductible donation directly to Mountain Gardens (contact us) or through the Gofundme below, where you can also learn more about our campaign. Thank you!
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Workshops
Learn to identify, propagate, cultivate, harvest and prepare medicinal herbs and other useful plants.
Classes taught at Mountain Gardens, North Carolina’s premier demonstration garden of medicinal plants, with herb shop / pharmacy, extensive research library, seed collection & plant nursery, adjacent to Pisgah National Forest.
Upcoming Workshops
Plants and Seeds
Hundreds of different plants grow in our gardens. Of these, many are available for purchase on site from our nursery, or at the Asheville Herb Festival in May. We also sell seeds and bare roots by mail.
Guardians of the Green will have an online screening on June 20th. A trailer can be found here: Guardians of the Green Trailer