Joe Hollis
September 3, 1942 - November 9, 2023
Paradise is a garden.
Mountain Gardens is a botanical garden of useful plants featuring the largest collection of native Appalachian and Chinese medicinal herbs in the Eastern US, organically grown at the foot of the Black Mountains in Western North Carolina. Our specialties include: native and oriental medicinal herbs, wild foods, perennial vegetables, craft plants and other ethnobotanicals. We offer for sale seeds, plants, fresh and dried herb material, and other preparations. We present useful information regarding the cultivation and uses of these species, as well as our philosophy of Paradise Gardening.
Mountain Gardens is a registered 501(c)3 educational nonprofit, dedicated to continuing the work of our founder and teacher Joe Hollis. Joe’s vision of a small community of gardeners, stewards, and educators who live on the land and expand on what Joe accomplished is coming true in the wake of Joe’s passing. We continue our recovery from the devastating fire in which we lost the old library and herb shop, as we build the foundations—physical, organizational, economic, and interpersonal—for the flourishing of Mountain Gardens for generations to come. We are currently raising funds to accomplish all of these crucial tasks. You can make a tax-deductible donation directly to Mountain Gardens (contact us) or through our GoFundme below. Thank you!
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Workshops
Learn to identify, propagate, cultivate, harvest and prepare medicinal herbs and other useful plants.
Classes taught at Mountain Gardens, North Carolina’s premier demonstration garden of medicinal plants, with herb shop / pharmacy, extensive research library, seed collection & plant nursery, adjacent to Pisgah National Forest.
Upcoming Workshops
Plants and Seeds
Hundreds of different plants grow in our gardens. Of these, many are available for purchase on site from our nursery, or at the Asheville Herb Festival in the spring. We also sell seeds and bare roots by mail.
