Kirby-Quinton Historic Cabin

Edible Pickens at

the Historic Kirby-Quinton Cabin

The garden at the Kirby-Quinton cabin is the largest Edible Jasper project. We are constantly adding to our gardens, so check back regularly to see how they’re growing! This garden focuses on including plants that our local restaurants and chefs use. It’s the largest space we’ve adopted to date and it gets amazing sun so it’s the perfect location for a chef’s garden!

The original garden around the cabin was installed many years ago by Rosamund Stancil. As reported by a friend of KPB, Rosamund was a short red headed 3rd grade teacher in 1961. She had a beautiful yard on Refuge Road where you would see her in her garden bonnet and gloves tending to her flowers and shrubs. Originally, the garden at the cabin had a good variety of herbs, flowers, and ferns; the hosta was donated by Jean Stancil. KPB is excited to revive and expand the gardens around the cabin.

Learn more about the historic Quinton Cabin from the Pickens Historical Society.

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Photos are in reverse order with the most recent first so you can see the garden today. Be sure to scroll down to see how it’s grown!

Edible Jasper Kirby Quinton Cabin — sage, rosemary, creeping thyme, lemon thyme, and tarragon

Edible Jasper Kirby Quinton — The garden is growing! Rosemary, lemon thyme, creeping thyme, tarragon, oregano, and more!

edible jasper quinton garden expansion — Join us for the next Edible Jasper workshop to fill the new garden space with delicious plants 🙂

edible jasper quinton garden expansion new soil — This new soil will settle for the next month. We’ll add some compost and other goodies so it will be ready for lots of new plants once the threat of frost has passed.

edible jasper quinton garden expansion soil pile — Check out that beautiful pile of soil!

edible jasper quinton garden expansion southscape donated soil — We needed soil to cover the cardboard. Brad from SouthScape, once again, donated the soil to our garden. Thank you Brad and SouthScape!

edible jasper quinton garden expansion cardboard weed barrier — This thick layer of cardboard will serve as a weed block to hopefully keep the grass out of the garden.

edible jasper quinton garden expansion laying cardboard — To expand the garden for the 2022 season, the Pickens Recycling Center brought us enough cardboard to lay a thick layer.

the garden at the end of workshop 2 — What a full and happy garden!

kales, cabbages, and more — The garden now has several varieties of kale, green and red cabbage, swiss chard, bok choy, and cilantro, in addition to the plants from the first workshop.

We planted 40 creeping thyme plugs around the path tiles, so be sure to check back in the spring to see how they’ve grown

the path with creeping thyme — There are so many plants now! We focused on winter-hardy plants (since it’s December and we’re very late in the season), and will transition to more herbs in the spring.

the expanded Quinton garden — Check out the progress!

watering the new plants — The new plant babies got some mulch and water to make them happy in their new homes.

planting kale and collards on the outer edge

installing the path — The Historic Society donated some marble tiles that were in the Old Jail (next door) for our path. We like including Pickens marble in our gardens.

the December 2021 workshop gets started at the Edible Jasper Quinton garden — We hosted a workshop in December 2021 to plant the starts we’d been growing over the previous month. Our volunteers fit as many of the 400+ plants in the the Quinton garden; the rest went into the garden spaces along Main Street.

time for plants — Time for the first plants! We planted kales, lettuce, pansies, sunchokes/Jerusalem artichokes, an elderberry, and a yellowbell/forsythia. We seeded beets, arugula, collards, and radishes.

Edible Jasper teamwork! — We had the best team for the first Kirby-Quinton workshop! Here they are finishing the last of the grass pulling. Next come the compost and other amendments.

clearing the grass — Since we want to start planting now, we pulled the grass from the area for Phase One. We will cover the rest of the hill to suffocate the grass this Winter so we can expand the garden in the Spring.

Quinton garden phase one — Phase One is marked. Now time to start pulling the grass!

Quinton garden materials — This soil has been highly impacted so we’re going to add compost and other conditioners. And we got lots of plants, both purchased and donated, to go in the ground!

the Kirby_quinton garden space — The goal is to foodscape the top of the hill, but we’ll start with part this Fall (2021) and will expand in the Spring.

The back of the Kirby-Quinton cabin… the site for our next Edible Jasper garden!

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