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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

Living Systems Design offers consulting and design services for creating regenerative human habitats. Services include:

• Permaculture/ecological design and consulting
• Edible landscaping design
• Installation services
• Sitemapping and drawings
• Energy and water conserving design.

Services are offered by Chuck Marsh and friends. Chuck also offers workshops at your site or at Useful Plants Nursery at Earthaven Ecovillage, near Black Mountain, NC.