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....
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 this fall. Participants will explore ways of recording the natural world through botanical...
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 this summer! The sale will feature a unique selection of native plants...
