Edible Jasper

Kirby-Quinton Historic Cabin

Edible Jasper at

the Historic Kirby-Quinton Cabin

The garden at the Kirby-Quinton cabin is the largest Edible Jasper project. We’re constantly adding new plants, so check back for updates!

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 HERE from the Pickens Historical Society.

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We are constantly adding to our gardens, so check back regularly to see how they're growing!

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!

sage, rosemary, creeping thyme, lemon thyme, and tarragon

Check out the plants in their new home! Hopefully they’ll be happy here!

Rosemary, lavender, and thyme will fill in as an herb-fence to help keep out the resident groundhogs.

rosemary, lavender, and creeping thyme

rosemary, sage, creeping thyme, and lemon thyme

Come and enjoy! Return often to watch it grow!

We’re building paths so you can wander through the garden. Grab some herbs while you’re visiting

rosemary, sage, lavender, creeping thyme, and lemon thyme

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Everything will fill in during the coming seasons.

So many herbs!

creeping thyme, lemon thyme, marigolds, swiss chard, lavender, and rosemary

sage, rosemary, swiss chard, lavender, creeping thyme, and marigolds

Check out the garden on the hill! It’s filling nicely!

lavender, sage, lemon thyme, and creeping thyme

sage, rosemary, swiss chard, and marigolds

sage, marigolds, swiss chard, rosemary, lavender, lemon thyme, and creeping thyme

arugula, swiss chard, marigolds, and oregano

rosemary, sage, lavender, lemon thyme, and creeping thyme

In October 2022, we relocated all the plants from our Edible Jasper gardens on Main Street. Most of them went into this garden. Here is rosemary. lemon thyme, creeping thyme, and more.

rosemary, sage, arugula, oregano, tarragon, and marigolds

rosemary, sage, and arugula

rosemary, creeping thyme, sage, and lemon thyme

rosemary and sage

tarragon, marigolds, and oregano

rosemary, creeping thyme, and lemon thyme

rosemary, creeping thyme, and tarragon

The garden is growing! Rosemary, lemon thyme, creeping thyme, tarragon, oregano, and more!

Join us for the next Edible Jasper workshop to fill the new garden space with delicious plants 🙂

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.

Check out that beautiful pile of soil!

We needed soil to cover the cardboard. Brad from SouthScape, once again, donated the soil to our garden. Thank you Brad and SouthScape!

This thick layer of cardboard will serve as a weed block to hopefully keep the grass out of the garden.

To expand the garden for the 2022 season, the Pickens Recycling Center brought us enough cardboard to lay a thick layer.

What a full and happy garden!

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

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.

Check out the progress!

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

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.

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.

The new Edible Jasper garden is off to a great start!

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.

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.

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.

Phase One is marked. Now time to start pulling the grass!

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 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!

Do you want to learn about the plants and how to use them?

We are building a plant library and a recipe catalog. Check back soon for updates!