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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.

 

All-day workshops are 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Cost $100 (bring your own lunch)

Half-day classes are 1:00 – 5:00 pm Cost: $50

Regular Plant Walks are 2 hrs long and cost $25

register below, or you are welcome to pay by cash upon arrival. if paying cash, please email to let us know you are coming, mountaingardens@gmail.com

 

Cost includes handouts, seed and plant distributions and samples of herbs and preparations as appropriate.

Each session will include: a plant walk in the garden and/or adjacent National Forest, lecture/demonstration, hands-on practice, resources and bibliography for further study.

For information on driving, lodging, and refunds, click here.

To register for an event, please follow the link for each date to register online, or call 828-675-5664.

We offer a 20% discount on workshops to groups of 3 or more. Email us for a code.

 

These workshops take advantage of our unique combination of diverse habitats, extensive plant collection, extraordinary library and well-equipped herb shop, plus my forty years of study and experimentation.

As a ‘botanic garden of useful plants’, one of our purposes is to introduce and promote new useful plants, for gardeners, growers, herbalists and chefs. Areas of special interest include wildfoods, medicinal herbs, (native and oriental), health-boosting (tonic, adaptogenic) plants and east-west parallels in botany and pharmacy.

Seeds and plants of most of the species discussed will be available for purchase; additionally participants will have the opportunity to purchase freshly dug, bare-root plants at a considerable saving.

 
 
 
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A Day With Thomas Avery Garren

  • Mountain Gardens 546 Shuford Creek Road Burnsville, NC, 28714 United States (map)

This class will focus on plant observation with discussions on botany and identification, cultivation, processing and medicine making, and clinical application in the diverse gardens developed by Joe Hollis over the last 50 years.

Thomas Avery Garran, PhD, is an herbalist, practitioner, author, translator, and scholar who has been studying botanical medicine for over 30 years. He holds a PhD in Chinese Materia Medica Studies from the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, China where he currently resides. Dr. Garran is widely published, and is the author and/or translator of four books including Western Herbs in Chinese Medicine: Methodology & Materia Medica, Western Herbs according to Chinese Medicine: A Practitioner’s Guide, and Chinese Herb Cultivation: Daodi Practices for Growing and Processing Chinese Herbs. His recent work focuses on daodi (local) herbs and agriculture, and bringing his nearly 16 years of living, farming, and studying in China back to the U.S.

Earlier Event: June 25
Appalachian Medicinal Herbs
Later Event: July 2
Grow Wasabi