The Ardea Land Project is held with a vision for tending land, spirit, and community. It is an exploration in creating a place to express a range of human experience - as a child, adolescent, adult, and elder. Direct relationship with the living, spirit-filled world is a catalyst for this work.

Ardea, where the project was born, is land once inhabited by the Cherokee and Catawba: 60 acres among the foothills of the Southern Appalachian Mountains in Cleveland County.

This online platform’s primary function is to be a home for the Feralwood Nursery shop. Our nursery focuses on bareroot, perennial, native plants that are shipped during dormancy.

However, there is always so much more going on around here! Our overarching mission is to deeply steward our dynamic land project - integrating people, plants, and animals for the well-being of all.

Thank you for being here.