We all dreamed of things as kids and young people. Perhaps you wanted to be famous, or be a scientist, or a star athlete. Blake wanted to live in a more peaceful, more abundant world.

Blake Cothron's love for plants and nature started very early. What started as a boy with a love for trees, rain, fields of wildflowers and all things Kentucky, to the tomato plants his mother bought him as a young boy in the 1990s which kick-started his fledgling 3' x 6' home garden in his parent's suburban backyard.

This passion for gardening got really going as a teen, wherein he also grew to wanting to live closely to, and in alignment with nature and work with the Earth to meet his needs.

He soon developed a desire to learn everything he could about fruiting plants and trees in the early 2000s. This led to him pruning neighbor’s trees and planting trees of his own. 

This intensified with him traveling the USA in his 20s to learn organic farming and fruit growing in a diversity of climates and regions, This spanned from managing organic apple orchards in Missouri, to working with figs, persimmons and guavas in Mississippi to coconuts and tropical fruit in Hawai'i, to managing acres of organic fruit orchards in the lovely hills of California's bay area for a summer. He dedicated many years to hands on learning, managing operations, traveling and exploring organic farming and fruit cultivation with gusto.

He kept his dream alive by returning to Kentucky in 2013, after many years of travel, managing other people's operations, and learning new and innovative approaches to land stewardship and regenerative agriculture, as well as the pitfalls of conventional agriculture side-by-side.

In 2014 he started and founded Peaceful Heritage Nursery LLC, right in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. He gradually built the nursery over time, from scratch. trialing many diverse species and fruit cultivars, experimenting with innovative and regenerative techniques, putting in 1000s of hours of research, on-ground trials and working on new agriculture strategies and solutions. This is an on-going process that has led to the release of a growing number of unique and innovative plants into the nursery trade.

Blake has been the leader of Peaceful Heritage Nursery LLC, but over the years a number of people have contributed a lot to grow the nursery and help it succeed. There is a whole small team of people that contribute to keeping PHN working and thriving. It's a team of hardworking middle America people as well as a few hardworking IT pros all working within right livelihood to keep a good thing here going strong.

The nursery is here to provide excellent, top-shelf plants to our many customers. It's also a goal for us to assist you in reconnecting to the mystery, beauty and abundance of the Earth by creating your own oasis of homegrown fruit, food and abundance, as well as local wildlife proliferation through native plantings. It's our aim to supply YOU with top shelf nursery plants, products, and excellent customer service.

Plants named and introduced to the nursery trade as of 2025 by Peaceful Heritage Nursery LLC (those marked with * are varieties donated to the nursery by collectors:

Mulberries: Honeydrops, Madhava, Varaha, Vajra, Asheville Delite *,

Pawpaws: Golden Moon, Avatar, Sri Gold, Free Byrd *, Florence White *

Berries: Hidden Gem Black Raspberry, Braveheart Juneberry

Grapes: Re-introduced many 1800s Munson varieties to the nursery trade, recovering them from near extinction.

Nuts: 'Gideon' English walnut, now only existing in the orchard of Cliff England, which was discovered growing in and producing full crops of nuts in Kentucky. Scions were saved just before the trees were destroyed; Cliff grafted it.

Passionfruit: Introduced a superior genetic line of P. incarnata. Clone of new varietal is coming Soon!