Mountain Gardens
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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.

 

All-day workshops are 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Cost $100 (bring your own lunch)

Half-day classes are 1:00 – 5:00 pm Cost: $50

Plant Walks are 2 hrs long and cost $25

register below or you are welcome to pay by cash upon arrival, please email to let us know you are coming, joehollisherbs@gmail.com

 

Cost includes handouts, seed and plant distributions and samples of herbs and preparations as appropriate.

Each session will include: a plant walk in the garden and/or adjacent National Forest, lecture/demonstration, hands-on practice, resources and bibliography for further study.

For information on driving, lodging, and refunds, click here.

To register for an event, please follow the link for each date to register online, or call 828-675-5664.

We offer a 20% discount on workshops to groups of 3 or more. Email us for a code.

 

These workshops take advantage of our unique combination of diverse habitats, extensive plant collection, extraordinary library and well-equipped herb shop, plus my forty years of study and experimentation.

As a ‘botanic garden of useful plants’, one of our purposes is to introduce and promote new useful plants, for gardeners, growers, herbalists and chefs. Areas of special interest include wildfoods, medicinal herbs, (native and oriental), health-boosting (tonic, adaptogenic) plants and east-west parallels in botany and pharmacy.

Seeds and plants of most of the species discussed will be available for purchase; additionally participants will have the opportunity to purchase freshly dug, bare-root plants at a considerable saving.

 
 
 
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Summer Useful Plants

  • Mountain Gardens 546 Shuford Creek Road Burnsville United States (map)

In this half-day session we’ll spend the afternoon in the garden, learning about useful plants of Summer, both edible and medicinal. We’ll cover ID, uses, ecology, propagation, cultivation and harvest of a wide variety of edible, medicinal, and craft (fiber, dye. paper, basketry, etc., etc.) plants. In addition to touring the garden we’ll also take a look at the large library of resources I’ve assembled.

Earlier Event: July 18
Plant Walk
Later Event: August 1
Western Herbs in Chinese Medicine