Friday, July 12, 2024

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.