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Welcome to the Asheville Herb Festival
Official Website
The WNC Chapter of the NC Herb Association represents the incredibly wide variety of herbalists and herb businesses in North Carolina: herb growers and vendors, natural gardening and landscaping specialists, and makers of herbal ointments, balms, soaps, teas, medicines, and other products. We hope you’ll join us and more than 25,000 other herb lovers when we celebrate our 20th annual Asheville Herb Festival May 1, 2, & 3, 2009, at the WNC Farmers Market.
“If It’s Herbs, It’s Here.”
Whether you’re looking for herbal medicine, holistic treatment, herbal soaps and shampoos, gourmet cooking herbs, cookbooks, or organic gardening information, you’ll find the products and experts you need. The annual festival has become an important annual gathering for herb enthusiasts and professionals from throughout the southeast. “Many visitors return each year to visit with friends, shop for their favorite plants and products, and have a good time surrounded by herbs,” says festival founder Rick Morgan.
Drought-tolerant planting
This year, herb lovers from across the Southeast took advantage of some of the best herbs, plants, products, literature, and herb talk in the southeast. Many visitors were excited to learn that many of the most popular herbs, having developed around the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, are drought-tolerant. Information about xeriscaping with drought-tolerant herbs and capturing rainwater for gardening is more useful than ever as Western NC enters its second year of exceptional drought; among the new offerings this year was an opportunity to learn about (and buy!) environmentally sensible rain barrels. And Master Gardeners, experts from the Buncombe Count Extension Service, were on hand during the festival to answer gardening questions.
Dates Set for the 20th Annual Herb Festival, Spring 2009!
Dates are already set for 2009 annual herb festival in Asheville, North Carolina. May 1st - 3rd (Friday through Sunday) we will again celebrate nature's bounty at the Western North Carolina Farmer's market. Hands down, we have the best selection of herb plants in the Southeast.
By clicking on the vendor info section on this Website, you will learn more about the vendors who marketed their herbs, herb plants, and herb products at the festival. These dedicated herb producers can be contacted at any time by consumers who wish to purchase their products.
Celebrate the 20th Annual Herb Festival
Together with the Western North Carolina Farmers Market (operated by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture), the Asheville Herb Festival has increased the public’s knowledge and love of herbs and herbal products for two decades. Our 20th annual festival will take place May 1-3, 2009 at the WNC Farmers Market in Asheville, offering by far the best selection of herb plants in the southeast. Visit the directory page of our website to learn more about this year’s vendors. These dedicated herb specialists can be contacted at any time by consumers who wish to purchase their products.
Visit our photo gallery for images taken at last year's festival. Send our photographer an email if you are interested in receiving a high resolution image for your own photo collection.
Asheville Herb Festival
PO Box 1427
Candler, NC 28715
Rick Morgan at 828-778-4365
Andy Reed at 828-301-8968