Useful Plants Nursery

"Liberation through Abundance"

• Phytonutritional plants for edible landscaping
• Fruits, nuts, berries, medicinal herbs
• Permaculture design and consulting
  

 Plants
   Vines
   Trees
   Shrubs
   Herbaceous perennials  
   Medicinal herbs  

 Planting instructions

 Printable plant list

 Driving directions

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.

         -- Chuck Marsh, nurseryperson, permaculture designer, bioregional inhabitant

Figs: Our July plant of the month

This homesteading couple, whose farm is located next to Useful Plants Nursery, have a fig three over 30 feet high and just as wide that produces more fruit than they can keep up with. It has a reputation for the "$600 fig harvest," having earned them as much in one year at the farmer’s market. Their trick? Placing the fig in as hot and sunny a location as possible. It’s on the south side of their house next to their pond, which helps hold the temperature stable in the winter.

Figs need to be carefully located in terms of microclimate. Even a slight amount of shade will prohibit fruit production. And you think because figs are from a Mediterranean climate that they don’t like water? Leon and Geni's fig has grown roots all the way under the pond liner and up to the other side. It loves being near the pond! Figs, on ther other hand, don’t need a lot of fertilizer but will do well with a high pH, so add some lime at the time of planting.

During July 3 gallon figs are 20% off!

Plant deliveries to the Greenlife parking lot

We deliver plants to Asheville once a week, at 5 pm on Tuesdays, 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 no charge to deliver plants to this event.

Custom deliveries are available. The charge and minimum order depends on the distance from our nursery near Black Mountain. Call (828) 669-6517 to schedule a delivery.

Plant for the Planet

Useful Plants Nursery is proud to be a partner in the United Nations Environmental Programme's Plant for the Planet Program.

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