Fall is the gardener’s season of gathering in. As the garden slows, the plants hand us their next generation, and a little care now means a spring full of new plants. This season we are sharing how we collect and store native seed, along with a checklist of our...
Dear Friends, Autumn arrives early at elevation. The ridgelines are turning, the meadows are softening into gold, and the first crisp mornings have settled over Toxaway Mountain. It is a season of transformation, and a reminder that change is a necessary and beautiful...
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 blooms, the eager arrival of visitors — summer settles into something fuller and more generous. The...
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 conservation at Southern Highlands Reserve. Our team reflects a growing truth — that women are more...
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 time to be on this mountain. The forest is at peak density, the living collection is in full...
Southern Highlands Reserve is proud to be working with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW) — one of the most celebrated landscape architecture firms in the country — on a comprehensive landscape plan for our 120-acre conservation site on Toxaway Mountain....
