The WellSprings site offers the quintessential ingredients for building strong and healthy bodies - rich soil, clean air, and healing water. Situated on the shores of Bear Creek, the soil has been enriched over time with minerals from the Siskiyou and Cascade mountain ranges which facilitates the cultivation of nutritious vegetables and medicines. The US Geological Survey has registered WellSprings soil as “Class I,” a classification that exemplifies premium quality mineral content and tilth.

Nine of the Wellsprings' acres have been awarded “organic certification” by Oregon Tilth. Two acres are currently under intense cultivation and furnish most of the restaurant’s food and culinary herb requirements.

Our hortus medicus - or educational, medicinal herb garden - features the botanical species that have served mankind in health over the last several thousand years. The gardens are supplied by two clean, fresh water sources: a hillside spring and a surface creek that flow throughout the year along the back of the property.

The unique geographical and climactic features of the Siskiyou Bioregion, a fertile valley abundant with granitic and clay soils protected between two North-Southerly mountain ranges, invite botanical diversity that is unprecedented in the Northerntemperate hemisphere.

At the turn of the Twentieth Century the City of Ashland captured its abundant botanical heritage in its motto, “Where the palm trees meet the pines.” Only thirteen other regions on the planet offer greater species diversity than found in the Siskiyous. WellSprings’ warm water springs increase its ability of grow subtropical varieties, making the property ideal for establishing aesthetic botanical and water garden features, a valuable addition to any healing center.