Weekend at the Asheville Herb Festival
We had a lot of fun this weekend at the Asheville Herb Festival! We sold quite a few plants, and bought and traded for many others, including tea, curry, and Vietnamese Cilantro plants. It’s great to...
View ArticleJune Courses
Perennial Vegetables June 11 1-5 pm Mountain Gardens grows more perennial vegetables than any other nursery that we know. We grow most of the plants in Eric Toensmeier’s “Perennial Vegetables,” the...
View Article2012 Wasabi Sales have begun
Fresh wasabi seed is now available. Packet (50 seeds) = $10. 1 gram (200+ seeds) = $30. Price includes domestic postage; add $5 for international shipment ($15/pkt, $35/gram). Limit is 5 grams per...
View ArticleLate Spring Observations
In her book The Resilient Gardener, Carol Deppe offers a list of 33 Gardening Rules. Many of these are specific suggestions for gardening logistics. Two of my favorites are Rule 31: Slow Down, and...
View ArticleJust another day in the garden
As we prepare to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, we are putting the finishing touches on the vegetable garden. We are lucky to have a free source of horse manure, so...
View ArticleFun with the Wood Stove!
In the hot days of summer, sometimes it is easier to just throw something quick, like pasta, on our single-burner efficient “Rocket Stove,” and make a salad from our garden’s diverse mix of greens....
View ArticleMountain Gardens, Botanical Sanctuary
Follow the link below to read a wonderful review of Mountain Gardens, written by Juliet Blankespoor after her recent visit with students from the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine....
View ArticleThe world in miniature
A series of photos from intern Ashlyn Talley, photographed through a hand lens. Click on any image to see a larger version.
View ArticleThe Dog Days of August
In Colorado, where I lived before coming to North Carolina, the Dog Days of August might mean a long stretch of hot, dry weather with chapped lips and wilted crops, sun-hat, sunscreen, and sunglasses...
View ArticleSummer’s End
The first day of October arrives with a chill in the air, constant rain, and a bounty of new colors in the trees. With this change in the weather comes an opportunity to sit down at the computer. The...
View Article2013 Projects and Workshops
We have a lot of very exciting projects ongoing. This winter I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time in the excellent library at UNC Chapel Hill and discovered a lot of obscure reference material,...
View Article2012 Year in Review
January Treefall The year started with a bang as my favorite tree, the largest of the poplars that ring the deck, snapped off in a windstorm, It had been struck by lightening a year previously,...
View ArticleSansai: on beyond ramps
Sansai means, literally, ‘mountain vegetable.’ Mountain vegetable implies wild vegetable., as opposed to cultivated (on the plains). Mountains are high, closer (than plains) to heaven. Mountain...
View Article2013 Review
Keenan taking down trees for us early in the year. Clearing space and removing trees turned out to be a theme of 2013. pollinating mandrakes… Will’s class out on the terraces… medicinal meads....
View ArticleWhy Bare Roots?
What it is : After a few years of experimentation, and with almost no requests for replacements, we are this year offering a wide range of ‘bare-root’ plants for sale. This means that, after receiving...
View ArticleParadise Gardening update
A CONTEMPORARY PARADISE GARDEN Mountain Gardens began in 1972, when I obtained 2.8 acres of woodland in the high mountains of western NC. Almost from the start, the intention has been to develop a...
View ArticleAesthetics at Mountain Gardens
I am trying to make a Paradise Garden, a garden which fulfills all my (our) needs, and so it should go without saying that it must be a beautiful garden, indeed the most beautiful (to me) garden in the...
View ArticleFlying around the garden in Winter
In the still of winter, our neighbor Matt Tibbets came by to shoot an aerial video of the garden, while there was a lot of visibility. Check it out, along with some other new videos on our You Tube...
View ArticleHerbal Immersion Program
I am very happy to promote the online herb courses now being offered by our good friend Juliet Blankenspoor through her Chestnut School. The Herbal Medicine Making course is now available and is...
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