Kathy Blakeslee's  passion for organic gardening, herb plants and gourmet cooking gave birth to Ashbury Herb Gardens, this organic herb farm is  tucked away in the rolling hils of Baraboo in Sauk Country, Wisconsin.  Kathy was the fomer owner of Spring Valley Garden's in Loganville, Wisconsin which she created in 1982. This diverse herb farm featured over 300 unique varieties of culinary and medicinal herbs. Additionally Kathy featured a gourmet cooking school in which customers could gather their own vegetables and fresh herbs from the garden to prepare in their recipes in Kathy's cooking classes held in her stone garden  studio in the herb gardens.  Spring Valley Gardens was featured in many national publications including on the covers of 'Grower Talks' and 'Horticulture' magazines,  that business has since been sold.  Kathy and her husband Joe spend part of their life in Baraboo, Wisconsin where she created another organic herb farm called  Ashbury Herb Gardens and sells only now at the Dane County Farmer's Market in Madison in the early Spring where she still has the same location which she has held for the past  23 years and due to her busy schedule her farm is no longer open to the public but you can see her on Saturday mornings at the farmers market in Madison and the rest of year now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Kathy is also a botanist, horticulture teacher, author and phyto medicine specialist, Holistic Life Coach and O.M.C., her passion is in organic consultanting and teaching sustainable living.   She has been focused on the organic and environmental movement in this country for years  along with Marin Organics,  Bioneers , Slow Food Nation, Herb Society of America and has worked with Alice Waters, Smith and Hawken and Agua Bella Organics in the San Francisco Bay Area.  

Kathy hopes to create an Organic Learning Institue that will focus on organic farming, gardening tips, sustainable living and creating an organic raw food diet  along with teaching healing herbal remedies and ointments for vibrant health and wellnes, . She has accumulated this knowledge from her years of organic living and teaching, and hopes to write her book entitled 'Alternative Healing and Indigenous Cultures'.

 Kathy hopes to bring together some of the most extraordinary visionaries in today's world, focusing on topics of healing with Green Foods, Herb Gardening, Organic Living and Alternative Healing thru organic food choices. 

 Kathy's mission is:  to heal thru natural medicines and to learn more about phyto medicine and it's uses.  Kathy provides inspiration, products and services which will empower you to reclaim the basics of an organic lifestyle, sustainable habits, a life of healthy raw and organic food along with the extraordinary spirit of community.