WNC's Permaculture Nursery
Specializing in Useful, Phytonutrient, Food, and Medicinal Plants
2025 Events Near Asheville/Black Mountain!
Useful Plants Nursery will have booths open at the following events:
Gardening Outside the Lines, April 5, 2025
On Saturday, April 5, 2025, from 8:00am to 4:00pm, the Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Association of McDowell County is hosting a garden symposium, Gardening Outside the Lines, for county residents and other regional gardeners. This symposium will bring together backyard gardeners and gardening professionals for a day of insightful presentations featuring dynamic speakers who are leaders in their field. Topics will focus on eco-friendly gardening with special emphasis on Western North Carolina’s plant zones and climate considerations.
Asheville Herb Festival, April 25-27, 2025
The Largest herb festival in the United States and Canada – promoting WNC herbs and herbal products since 1990!
The 35th Annual Spring Herb Festival will be held at the WNC Ag Center, Friday-Sunday, April 25-27, 2025. Friday & Saturday 8:30am-5:00pm, Sunday 10:00am-3:00pm
Free Admission – Free Parking – Free Workshops – Leashed dogs welcome!
Delicious, Nutritious Berries and Delightfully Weird Plants available from Useful Plants Nursery
Berries: Raspberries, blackberries, blueberries,
Delightfully Weird: Aroneas, Goumis, and *Flying Dragons, Yuzus
*Hardy citrus
Trees: Apples and Plums
Growing in the Mountains Plant and Art Festival, May 2-4, 2025
The festival will be open May 2-4, 2025. Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm, and Sunday 10am-2pm at the WNC Farmers Market.
We are excited to announce the dates for the 2025 Growing in the Mountains festival! Mark the date, plot your garden, and dust off your wagon.
Black Mountain Garden Sale, May 16-17, 2025
Black Mountain Town Square Parking Lot
Friday, May 16th, 2-7 pm
Saturday, May 17th, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
One of the most popular gardening sales in Western North Carolina. The event will feature annuals, carnivorous plants, cut flowers, edible shrubs, herbs, native plants, perennials, trees, and vegetable starts from specialty plant vendors.
Delicious, Nutritious Berries and Delightfully Weird Plants available from Useful Plants Nursery
Berries: Raspberries, Blackberries, Blueberries,
Delightfully Weird: Aroneas, Goumis, and *Flying Dragons, Yuzus
*Hardy citrus
Trees: Apples and Plums
About Useful Plants Nursery
Useful Plants Nursery is a permaculture-based nursery specializing in useful, phytonutritional, food, and medicine plants well-adapted to our Southern Appalachian mountains and surrounding bioregions. Our plants are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides at our nursery located at Earthaven Ecovillage.
We believe that growing your own food and medicine plants is a vitally important strategy and practice for regaining control over our collective and personal lives, our health, and our individual and bioregional economic well being. Our nursery is dedicated to putting those beliefs into practice and truly creating "Liberation through Abundance" as we serve your needs for healthy, useful landscape plants, and work together to reweave the web of life.
Current Hours
UPN will be open from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm on Wednesdays, Thursday and Saturdays starting March 1st, 2025 through June 14th, 2025. Please call first as there may be road work on Hwy 9. At this time Bat Cave Road South from Old Fort is the best way to get to us.
We are always open by appointment and for special plant requests! And we can deliver plants. Send us an email or call us at 828-669-6517. (Cash or check only).
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