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Useful Plants Nursery - plants for edible landscapes

Upcoming events

Every spring we load up the plants and take them to events around the region. This is a great time to see and purchase our plants without coming out to the nursery. We carry over 200 varieties of plants and can't bring them all, so if you would like us to bring something special for your garden let us know a few days ahead of time.

Useful Plants gift certificates!

Give the gift that keeps giving for years to come. With a UPN gift certificate, your recipient can choose the plants they want when they are ready to plant them.

NAFEX annual meeting coming to Asheville August 8-11

This year the North American Fruit Explorers are holding their annual meeting in Asheville. The meeting will be hosted by Bill Whipple and the Buncombe Fruit and Nut Club. The these is "Honoring our elders" and organized to pass the wealth of fruit knowledge from the elders to the youngers. For an article about the gathering, see this article by Bill Whipple.

Organic Growers School

Thank you to everyone who came to our presentation on Horticultural Strategies for the Home Orchard at the 2013 Organic Growers School! Here are links to PDF files for our slides and handout:

Link to Michael Phillip's Holistic Orchard Network website.

Plant Jam DVD!

Now you can have all of our instructional videos on a DVD! These are the same videos as on our website, but with the DVD you can watch them on a DVD player or on a computer that doesn't have high-speed Internet.

The DVD is only $10 plus $2 to cover sales tax and postage. Order yours here:

The DVD contains:

Plant deliveries to Asheville

We deliver plants once a week, usually on Wednesdays.

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

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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.

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