Located along Clear Creek just six miles east of downtown Hendersonville, Milkweed Meadows is a 5th generation family farm. Its grassy "bottoms" once nourished cows that produced milk sold to Biltmore Dairy Farms in Asheville. Today, the meadows are yielding milk of a different kind — milkweed plants to help sustain monarch butterflies!
THE FARM AND THE FARMER
An avid wildlife habitat gardener and environmental educator for over 25 years, farmer Kim Bailey has a true passion for pollinators. Over the past years, she has been expanding the farm's natural habitats for native milkweed species and planting additional host plants for other butterflies.
Living tunnels of passionvines, pipevines, climbing milkweeds, and hops vines benefit a diversity of species while an orchard of over 100 pawpaw trees specifically nurture zebra swallowtail larvae.
Milkweed Meadows Farm currently produces native wildflower seeds, open-pollinated heirloom vegetable seeds, pollinator-friendly potted plants, cut flowers, and specialty fruits. Educational programs and/or farm tours for groups are also periodically scheduled onsite.
PLANT SALES & PROGRAMS
Find Milkweed Meadows Farm selling pollinator-friendly potted plants and/or teaching at these upcoming events:
Saturday, May 17, 8:30 AM - 3 PM
Habitatscaping: Supporting Nature with Native Plants Conference & Plant Sale
A-B Tech Conference Center, 16 Fernihurst Dr., Asheville, NC
Conference registration ($25) is required to attend the keynote presentation by Dr. Douglas Tallamy.
SOLD OUT! However, non-ticket holders are invited to visit the native plant vendors located outside on the Conference Center and may also attend morning concurrent presentations in Ferguson Auditorium and the Sycamore Building Lecture Hall. Dr. Tallamy's lecture will be also recorded and posted on the event webpage following the conference.
I have one spare ticket to the HabitatScaping Conference to give away. Now claimed!
Saturday, May 24 & Sunday, May 25, 9 AM - 5 PM
Garden Jubilee
Main Street, Hendersonville, NC
Friday, May 30 & Saturday, May 31, 10 AM - 3 PM
NC Arboretum Spring Plant Sale & Market
Thank you to Loretta with Butterfly Flight who will be sharing the Milkweed Meadows Farm tent and selling her butterfly wings to wear alongside our pollinator-friendly plants!
100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC ($20 parking fee for all non-members)
Friday, May 30 - Sunday, June, 1
Gardening for Butterflies, Bees, Moths, & Hummingbirds (Weekend Course)
John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC
Explore the life cycles, habitat needs, and importance of our native bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. Learn how to create a garden, planter, or yard that's not just friendly to pollinators, but irresistibly beautiful! Practice plant propagation techniques, including growing native plants, to attract monarchs. Build a unique hummingbird fountain, butterfly puddling station, or native bee nesting hotel and return home with plants to further enhance your pollinator habitat. Registration is required. Discounted tuition is available to teachers, military personnel, and young adults.
Saturday, June 7, 8 AM - 1 PM
Hendersonville Farmers Market - Pollinator Day
Historic Train Depot, 650 Maple Street, Hendersonville, NC
Tuesday, August 12, 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Certified Pollinator Advocate (CPA) Course: All About Monarchs & Their Migration
Asheville Botanical Gardens, 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville, NC
Talk about picky eaters! Monarch butterflies have captured the imagination of young and old with their exclusive milkweed diet and unfathomable migration from Canada to Mexico. This class will cover everything from milkweed seed collection and stratification to species options for different settings, dangers of tropical milkweed, the milkweed insect community, raising monarchs responsibly, reporting monarch sightings, and tagging monarchs. Registration is required. Class is $25 for non-members and $18.75 for members of the Asheville Botanical Garden.
Saturday, September 13, 9 AM - 3 PM
Asheville Botanical Gardens Fall Plant Sale
151 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville, NC
Saturday, September TBA (6th or 20th) 7, 8 AM - 1 PM (Date dependent on when pawpaws ripen!)
Hendersonville Farmers Market
Historic Train Depot, 650 Maple Street, Hendersonville, NC
TBA
Gardening For Life Project - Fall Native Plant Sale
Tryon, NC
TBA (Likely September 26 and 27)
NC Arboretum Fall Plant Sale & Market + Monarch Day
100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC ($20 parking fee for all non-members)
TBA (Likely October 4 - Tentative)
Mountain Monarch Festival
Gorges State Park, 976 Grassy Ridge Rd, Sapphire, NC
October 8 (Tentative)
WNC Gardening Symposium
Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W Campus Dr, Flat Rock, NC
Symposium registration is required.
Sunday, February 1 - Saturday, February 7, 2026 - Registration is now open!
Migration of the Monarch Butterflies in Mexico Trip
Morelia, Angangueo, & Macheros, Mexico
(Sierra Chincua, El Rosario, and Cerro Pelón Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserves)
CONTACT US TO...
- Make an appointment to purchase potted plants or buckets of fresh-cut flowers at the farm (typically available May - October).
- Schedule a farm tour and/or onsite educational program for your garden club, classroom, or other group ($10 per person, $100 minimum). Kim may also be available to give presentations or teach classes/workshops on monarch butterfly ecology, gardening for pollinators, etc. at your location.
2025 Farm tours and programs are currently on hold due to Helene recovery efforts. Please contact us to be added to the waiting list and be notified when we can once again schedule tours, presentations, classes, etc. - Contract for “grow to order” pollinator-friendly plants available in 5” deep 38-plug flats or quart containers (8-12 weeks’ notice needed, depending on species) or bulk seed production.
- Request butterfly eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalides (as naturally available April - September) for your classroom, public garden/arboretum, or other educational organization. Butterflies are always free. Host plants (to feed caterpillars) are available for purchase.
- Purchase native passionfruit (AKA maypop) or pawpaw fruit (typically available starting in September) for fresh eating, brewing/fermentation, or restaurant/culinary creations.
Individual packets of milkweed seeds and certain open-pollinated heirloom vegetable seeds grown at Milkweed Meadows Farm are available from Sow True Seed.