News & Updates

Dear Friends of Southern Highlands Reserve,  Summer on the mountain feels like a deep exhale. After the anticipatory energy of spring — the unfurling, the first...

We are proud to shine a light on something we believe is worth celebrating: the women who are doing the hands-on, boots-in-the-soil, data-in-the-spreadsheet work of...

Summer in Western North Carolina is the season for which we garden. Long days, afternoon thunderstorms, cool nights at elevation — it is, in every respect, the best...

Southern Highlands Reserve is proud to be working with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW) — one of the most celebrated...

September 4 & September 24 · 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Southern Highlands Reserve is partnering with a local artist to offer two Nature Sketchbook Journaling workshops...

Save the Date! Friday, July 31st, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM  We are excited to announce that the Community Native Plant Sale is back at Southern Highlands Reserve...

Southern Highlands Reserve is proud to support the work of the Southern Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative (SASRI), a collaborative effort to restore red spruce...

Last May, Southern Highlands Reserve opened the doors to one of the most meaningful additions in our organization’s history — a state-of-the-art greenhouse facility...