Useful Plants Nursery - plants for edible landscapes
What's new!
Materials from Organic Growers School
Here are materials from Chuck's and Debbie's presentations at the 2012 Organic Growers School. For more information about Organic Growers School or to find handouts from other presentations, see the OGS website.
The Backyard Mountain Orchard
Permaculture and Human Nutrition
Festival schedule
You can find Useful Plants at the following plant sales this spring. If you would like us to bring plants especially for you, contact us a few days ahead of time.
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| May 19-20 | Herb festival | Piedmont Triad Farmers Market, Greensboro, NC |
| May 21-23 | 2012 NC Master Gardener Conference | Asheville, NC |
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:
- Planting a shrub or fruit tree with Chuck Marsh and a Nanking cherry
- Planting a blueberry bush with Chuck Marsh and a blueberry plant
- Pruning young fruit trees with Chuck Marsh and a couple apple trees
- Pruning trees into bushes with Debbie Lienhart and some mulberry trees/shrubs
- Pruning young blueberry bushes with Troy Swift and a blueberry plant
- Pruning mature blueberries
- Pinch pruning with Chuck Marsh and a whole cast of plants
- Pruning muscadine grapes
- Taking care of blackberries with Chuck Marsh in Marjorie's blackberry patch
- A shorter version of taking care of blackberries with Chuck
- Taking care of blackberries (follow up)
- Tuck your figs in for the winter with Chuck Marsh and a couple fig trees
- Winter protection for small figs with Chuck Marsh and some smaller fig plants
- Untucking figs after winter - see which protection methods worked the best
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.
Special - for gift certificates of $100 or more, we'll include the Plant Jam DVD!
Plant Jam videos
Our Plant Jam video series continues expanding:
- Planting a shrub or fruit tree with Chuck Marsh and a Nanking cherry
- Pruning young fruit trees with Chuck Marsh and a couple apple trees
- Pruning trees into bushes with Debbie Lienhart and some mulberry trees/shrubs
- Pruning young blueberry bushes with Troy Swift and a blueberry plant
- Pruning mature blueberries
- Planting a blueberry bush with Chuck Marsh and a blueberry plant
- Pinch pruning with Chuck Marsh and a whole cast of plants
- Taking care of blackberries with Chuck Marsh in Marjorie's blackberry patch
- Taking care of blackberries (follow up)
- A shorter version of taking care of blackberries with Chuck
- Tuck your figs in for the winter with Chuck Marsh and a couple fig trees
- Winter protection for small figs with Chuck Marsh and some smaller fig plants
- Untucking figs after winter - see which protection methods worked the best
- Pruning muscadine grapes
- Greenhouse timelapse
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. See our delivery section for details.
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