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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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Equinox Legacy Plant Walk w/ Abby Artemisia

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

Botanist, Herbalist, and Forager, Abby Artemisia is honored to continue the legacy of Joe Hollis on the land that was a major inspiration to her journey to North Carolina almost a decade ago to start The WANDER School, a nonprofit Herb school with a mission of Herbal Reparations. Proceeds will benefit both nonprofits, Mountain Gardens and The WANDER School.

Learn the plants of this transition time into Autmn.Abby will give you some basic introductory botany tips for identification, along with sustainable harvest and processing tips.

This will demystify the often but unnecessary complications of learning Botany and even make it fun!

Bring your field guides!

Learning Outcomes:

-You will gain basic botany knowledge for beginning local plant identification

-You will be able to recognize plants that grow in the outdoor spaces around you

-You will gain ideas for making your own herbal formulas and adding wild edible plants into your daily diet

Note: the location is an hour from Asheville and has wide weather fluctuations, including more rain and cooler temperatures. There is steep, rocky terrain, though we will be walking very slowly.

BIPOC Scholarships available email botanicalabby@gmail.com

RSVP https://www.thewanderschool.com/store/p75/legacy-equinox-plant-walk.html

Source:: https://www.thewanderschool.com/store/p75/legacy-equinox-plant-walk.html
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