Edible Jasper KPB Office

Edible Jasper

Edible Jasper is a project that began in 2011 by a small group of residents who wanted to promote sustainable and beneficial landscaping. The Pickens County Progress let them begin in their parking lot. Those original gardens are still around the front two light posts, but they are soon going to get an improvement and an expansion!

Keep Pickens Beautiful is Joining the Effort!

To begin, we are continuing to expand our garden near our office at the south end of Main Street. Several years ago, we planted rosemary and oregano. The rosemary is now gigantic and the oregano is still growing, but will be much happier now that it will have more companions. So now we’re expanding the garden! During the past couple of weeks, we’ve removed the grass along the road. SouthScape donated soil for the project, and we will continue adding more plants as the weather cools. See the gallery of photos below!

KPB wants to work with you!
Are you a local business owner who wants to help improve Main Street?
Does edible and sustainable landscaping sound exciting?
Do you want to come play in the dirt with us?
We need your help!

Keep Pickens Beautiful is also looking for leaders to help with Edible Jasper! We have many extremely knowledgable folks in our community who can help guide our plant choices as we develop more garden spaces. Please contact us if you want to help!

Sustainability and Environmental Responsibility

The Edible Jasper initiative expands the sustainable and environmentally responsible actions already happening in our community. KPB wants to help grow this into an identity for Pickens County – an identity as a forward-thinking community that cares about the environment and its citizens. Edible Jasper compliments our recycling center, farm-to-table restaurants, farmers markets, and more.

Check out some of our Edible Jasper gardens below!

KPB Office
Pickens Progress

Edible Jasper at the KPB Office

Plants include rosemary, lavender, lemon thyme, German thyme, cilantro, basil, oregano, and chives.

KPB office before grass removal
The Keep Pickens Beautiful office before we removed the grass. Check out the gigantic rosemary we planted a few years ago!
KPB office partial grass removal
The KPB office as the grass is being removed.

KPB office without any grass!
The KPB office after all the grass has been removed! It’s already looking better!!
SouthScape delivering soil
SouthScape generously donated topsoil to help improve the garden space.
(They carefully adjusted the truck to avoid our delicate fence.)
New topsoil from SouthScape
SouthScape delivers the new topsoil for the expanded KPB garden.
New topsoil for the edible garden
Thank you SouthScape for donating our needed soil! Now to start spreading it!
New topsoil
New topsoil spread on half of the expanded garden space.
New topsoil in the edible garden
The new topsoil has been spread! We added some marble stepping stones to encourage walking through the garden, and edging to help control the storm water.
Original rosemary and oregano in the edible garden
When the rosemary was planted several years ago, we also planted oregano. Some of it has survived! This demonstrates the benefits of sustainable plant selection.
A new lavender plant in the edible garden
Check out the baby lavender plant in front of the rosemary!
new rosemary and lavender in the edible garden
We added another rosemary (close) and a second lavender (middle) between the corner and the large rosemary (back).
Edible Jasper at the KPB office
What an improvement! The new rosemary and lavender plants will fill in during the next few years. As summer cools, we will continue adding new edibles to grow a delicious, aromatic garden on our corner of Main Street!
More herbs at KPB's office
We added some more herbs to the KPB office garden – german thyme and lemon thyme plants. We also seeded cilantro, chives, and basil, with more to come!
Herbs at the KPB office
Here’s a baby lemon thyme and seeded cilantro, chives, and basil.
Sprouted basil at the KPB office
In less than one week, the basil is already sprouting! We can’t wait to watch it grow!

Edible Jasper in the Pickens County Progress parking lot

Plants include Brown Turkey figs, strawberries, lemon balm, golden fennel, thyme, and rosemary.

The fig tree planted by Edible Jasper in 2011
The fig tree planted by Edible Jasper in 2011. It originally had companion strawberries that were repeatedly cut by maintenance crews so they didn’t survive.
figs
The fig tree has grown immensely and produces lots of delicious fruit. People come from throughout the community to enjoy them!
grass removed from garden space
The Edible Jasper team removed all the grass to prepare for a new strawberry garden.
strawberries
New strawberry plants were donated by a Pickens County resident for the Edible Jasper gardens. If you have plants to donate, please contact us with the form below.
strawberries and figs
The fruit garden looks so much better!! Swing by when you’re in town and grab a snack!

More photos will be added soon!

Drop in for a visit!
Come experience Jasper’s edible landscaping!

Let us know if you’d like to help with a project!

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