Turk's Cap Lilies (and other flowers) on Blue Ridge Parkway - summer 2024

 

 

 

Turk's Cap Lilies

Black Cohash                                              

 

Common Mullein

 

Yellow Jewelweeds

                                                   

 Common agrimony

 

Clematis flower after bloom

                                      Leather flower

 Fire pink

New mushrooms of the species Chicken of the Woods appear on the trees

Gaia Organic Herb Farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina

Gaia Farm, a 350-acre certified organic farm is located in the southwestern Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. This farm connects people, plants and the planet to provide healing. It is a place where flowers, herbs, trees, roots and grasses grow and where research is carried out to provide the plant-based, medicinal bioactive ingredients of these plants to people who need them. 

This is where well known herbal products Gaia are created.

 

Gaia is a beautiful name of Greek origin that means "the earth.” In Greek mythology, Gaia, known as the mother goddess, was the personification of the Earth

There are over 300 ginko biloba trees on the farm

Many fields of Echinacea Purpurea are grown annually

Gaia's Garden - a small place where many of the herbs used in Gaia products are grown. The garden also has pollinating plants, flowers for picking and culinary herbs used in country cuisine.

 

Passion flowers

The tour to visit the farm at Gaia Herbs was organized by Friends of DuPont Forest.

Gaia Herbs blog

Gaia Herb Farm