WNC's Permaculture Nursery
Specializing in Useful, Phytonutrient, Food, and Medicinal Plants
Useful Plants Nursery will have plants available at the following events!
Organic Grower’s School
The Spring Conference supports, inspires, and educates people to farm, garden, and live organically by providing affordable, practical, and hands-on education.
When: March 6-8, 2026
Where: Mars Hill University
150 Physical Plant Rd, Mars Hill NC 28754
PLANTS WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE ON MARCH 7TH AND 8TH.
Plants Available from the UPN:
Blueberries: Rabbiteyes - For more southern areas; Northern Blueberries - For cooler climates
Apples:Honeycrisp, Arkansas Black, Liberty, Gold Rush and more
Plums: Bruce, Methley
Pears: Asian Pears
Figs: Celeste, Mission, Brown Turkey, LSU Purple
Plus …Tea Camilias, Raspberries, Blackberries, American Hazelnuts, 2 types of Service Berries, Aronias and more!
Growing in the Mountains Spring Plant Sale
May 1-3, 2026
Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm
Sunday 10am-2pm
At: WNC Farmer’s Market
Asheville Annual Spring Herb Fest
April 24, 25 and 26th
At WNC Ag Center
Friday and Saturday 8:30am-5pm
Sunday 10am-3pm
Free Parking – Free Admission – Free Workshops
For Growing in the Mountains and Herbfest, stay tuned for more information and plants available from the UPN at this event!
Plants we have in abundance!
Useful Plants Nursery has the following plants available for immediate sale:
Goumis - 2 gallon pots, 16" - 32" tall @ $43 each
The two varieties we have Sweet Scarlet and Red Jim. Nitrogen-fixing plants: good to plant between or around other plants as the provide nitrogen to the soil and other plants.
Apples - various sizes and prices.
varieties: Arkansas Black, Yates, Honeycrisp and Liberty. Soon to have Goldrush.
Raspberries - 1 & 2 gallon pots - approx. 25 available.
Varieties: Fall Gold, Caroline and Heritage.
Pawpaws - 1 & 2 gallon pots - approx. 16 available.
Seedlings from local trees, requires two or more seedlings to cross-polinate. A good partial-shade plant.
Elderberries - 1 gallon pots @ $25 each, approx. 25 available.
Varieties: Bobgorden, Wildwood, Adams, Ranch.
Blueberries - 1-gallon @ $25, 2-gallon @ $30, 3-gal @ $35
Varieties: Northern, Southern and Rabbiteye.
Figs - 1-gallon @ $25, 2-gallon @ $30, 3-gal @ $35
Varieties: Celeste, Brown Turkey, Louisiana Purple.
New plants at the nursery we haven't had in a while:
Shadblow Serviceberry
* 10 in 1 gallon pots; ready November 20th or sooner; 3-4 feet high now, their roots need a little more growth
* 10-15 in 2 gallon pots; ready November 20th - 30th; 3-4 feet high now, their roots need a little more growth
* 5 in 3 gallon pots; ready December 10th - 15th
American Plums - their roots need a little more growth
* 1 gallon pots; ready November 20th or sooner
* 2 gallon pots; ready November 30th
* 3 gallon pots; 2 ready December 15th
Concord grapes * 2 gallon pots; ready now
* 3 gallon pots; ready now
American Hazlenuts - 2 in 7 gallon pots
Hearty Citrus
* Yuzu - 13 in 2-gallon pots
* Flying Dragon - 14 in 2-gallon pots
Pawpaws - ready approximately February 1st
* Sunflower Grafted - 4 in 3-gallon pots
* Susquahana - 6 in 3-gallon pots
* Overlease - 7 in 3-gallon pots
Bush Cherry - ready approximately February 15st
* Joy - 15 in 1-gallon pots
* Jan - 15 in 1-gallon pots
* Joel - 15 in 1-gallon pots
Wintergreen - ready approximately March 1st - 15 in 1-gallon pots
Mulberry - ready now
* Hicks - 2 in 4-gallon pots
* Illinois Everybearing - 5 in 1-gallon pots
* Illinois Everybearing - 3 in 2-gallon pots
* Illinois Everybearing - 1 in 3-gallon pots
Comfrey - a great dynamic accumulator of many minerals, good for gardens, orchards, etc. Approx 10 in 1-gal, 5 in 2-gal, 5 in 3-gal
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
Our hours for Spring 2026 will be starting March 4th. Our hours are from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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