Asheville’s 36th Annual Three-Day Spring Herb Festival
Friday through Sunday, April 24-27 at the WNC Agricultural Center in Fletcher.
The largest herb event in the United States and Canada, the festival will be open to the public from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 24 & 25, 2026, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 26, 2026.
Held in the Davis Exhibition Center on the Ag Center campus (www.wncagcenter.org), the festival will host over 70 vendors from western NC, upstate SC, and beyond. Workshops are also scheduled throughout the weekend, and food trucks will provide locally sourced and prepared meals in a variety of cuisines.
Huge Variety of Products
Vendors include farms that specialize in growing herbs, heirloom vegetables, and native shrubs, trees, and other plants; locally made natural herbal products ranging from salves and ointments, soaps, and body washes, to culinary and medicinal extracts and supplement; and heirloom vegetables, native medicinal plants, teas, fermented beverages, and even herb-infused ice cream.
Food trucks in 2026 include Bluebird Bubble Tea, Ceci’s Culinary Tour, The Garden, Habibi Village, Smasheville, and Southern Grounds Coffee.
The free workshops for the 2026 festival range from herbal cures and treatments, container gardening, to cultivating favorite herbs including sustainable cultivation methods.
Developing WNC’s Agricultural Heritage
The Asheville Herb Festival is organized by the WNC Herb Marketing Association (WNC HMA), established to promote opportunities to develop the region’s agriculture and specialty products. Many young farmers and entrepreneurs join with second- and third-generation families to ensure the health and long-term future of WNC’s herb industry.
By keeping alive ancient traditions of natural healing and health maintenance, the WNCHMA works to reestablish, and educate contemporary citizens about, some of the recipes, methods, and treatments developed by African Americans, Native Americans, and other traditional specialists in wise-woman lore.
Free to the Public
There is no admission fee to the Festival, and free parking is available throughout the Ag center grounds.
The Ag Center is located at 761 Boylston Highway (I-26 Exit 40). Enter at Gate 4 or 5, half a mile south of the Asheville Airport entrance. You will see the Davis Center ahead toward the left.
For more information, please visit www.AshevilleHerbFestival.org, go to Facebook.com/AshevilleHerbFestival, or call (828) 301-8968.
