We are busy planning 2026 Workshops. Check back in April for workshops beginning in May. Workshop timing will vary, below describes a typical experience.

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

Half-day classes - 1:00 – 5:00 pm

Regular Plant Walks - 2 hrs long

register below, or you are welcome to pay by cash upon arrival. if paying cash, please email to let us know you are coming, mountaingardens@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.

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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May Day Plant Walk w/Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine

Saturday, May 2, 2026
1:00 PM 4:00 PM 13:00 16:00

Mountain Gardens 546 Shuford Creek Road Burnsville, NC, 28714 United States (map)

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Join Dave Meesters and Janet Kent of the Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine for a May Day walk around Mountain Gardens. Learn the medicine of spring at Mountain Gardens. All proceeds go to the continuing restoration of Mountain Gardens. Sliding Scale tickets available here!

Terra Sylva exists to meet the growing need for environmentally and socially conscious herbalists able to support their communities as healers, educators, and emissaries of the plants. From basic energetics and botany, to medicine making and human physiology, all the way to herbal formulation and clinical skills, our programs impart the knowledge, skills, and experiences that best support the practicing community herbalist. Sliding Scale tickets available here!

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