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 and alchemist for the Harmony Project llc. based in Tanzania, Africa (www.harmonyproject.biz). She is also involved with studying indigneous cultures and their medicinal healing plants and their uses.   Kathy is also a Holistic Life Coach and O.M.C., and has a strong desire to support the organic and environmental movements in the United States.

Kathy is now and active member of Bioneers, Marin Organics, Slow Food Nation, Herb Society of America and Olbrich Gardens.  She has worked with Alice Waters, Smith and Hawken and Agua Bella Organics in the San Francisco Bay Area among others.

Kathy hopes to write a book soon on her studies and exploits in the herb world and her journeys abroad where she will share her accumulated  knowledge of her years of growing herbs, organic living, teaching alternative  healing practices with phyto-medicine.   The title of her book will be 'Alternative Healing and Indigenous Cultures' and their Healing Ways.

 Kathy focus to bring together some of the most extraordinary visionaries in today's world to help her carry out this vision.  

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