Useful Plants Nursery - plants for edible landscapes

Trees and other plants are great gifts for any occasion - holidays, weddings, new babies, new houses! With a UPN gift certificate, the recipient can get just what they want when they are ready to plant it.

Gift certificates are available in any denomination of at least $5.00. We will send a paper certificate in the US mail. If you prefer, we can send a PDF file that you or your recipient can print.

You can pay for the gift certificate with a credit card through our secure server, or contact us at info@usefulplants.org or (828) 669-6517.

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Edible Gardens at Old Fort Elementary School

Sara and Old Fort students Useful Plants Nursery's Bruce Johnston, Sara Carter, and Marie Reilly joined students and teachers in planting edible gardens at Old Fort Elementary School on Friday, November 6. The gardens feature figs, raspberries, juneberries, blueberries, muskedine grapes, and bush cherries. The Asheville Citizen Times and McDowell News reported on the event. Old Fort Elementary School is the nearest elementary school to the nursery.

Bruce and Old Fort students Useful Plants hopes to expand this program into other schools. "This just makes sense," says Marie Reilly, director of the nursery’s school garden planting program. "There’s a great need now for children – everyone, really – to become informed about and aware of the connection between their natural environment and the sources and quality of their food and water, and this is a really direct way to make that connection. Food – not just quality, but availability, too, will be a defining issue of the 21st century, and it’s good to be prepared."

Plant deliveries to the Greenlife parking lot

We deliver plants to Asheville once a week, at 5 pm on Wednesdays, to the lower Greenlife parking lot. If you would like us to bring plants especially for you, call us at (828) 669-6517 at least by the Monday before. There is an $8 delivery charge. See our delivery section for details.

Custom deliveries are available. The delivery charge is based on the distance from our nursery near Black Mountain. Organize a group order and share the delivery charge! See our delivery section for details. Call (828) 669-6517 to schedule a delivery.

UPN on Google Maps and Yahoo! Local

You can find the Useful Plants Nursery on Google Maps and Yahoo! Local. These sites have maps and directions, and a place to write reviews. If you are happy with UPN's plants and service, please spread the word by writing a review: Google Maps Yahoo! Local

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Useful Plants Nursery is a small, 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. I 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.

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