Part 3 of 4: Spring Plant Sale: vendors and workshops
As mentioned in Part 1 of this series, we love our festival days for the joy, community, and mischief they imbue into our Spring and Fall Plant Sales. The festival days are characterized by the presence of many outside vendors selling their wares or sharing their...
Part 2 of 4: Spring Plant Sale: the plants and varieties we offer
There are so many reasons why buying your garden seedlings at Crabtree Farms is different (we say ‘better’) than getting them from one of the big box stores. We choose plant varieties for our particular growing conditions. Chattanooga has a unique set of environmental...
Part 1 of 4: Spring Plant Sale: our thoughts and motivations
Each year Crabtree holds a spring plant sale for the public. We spend 4-5 months preparing for the event, with the last 2 months requiring the most intense and broad-reaching staff focus and time commitments. We do this for several reasons, the two most important...
What’s Ripe: First Ground Broken!
First ground broken at the farm this season! We’ve got a lot of ploughing and plant sale prepping to do this week, so you won’t see us at the market. Though we grow vegetables and sell them year round, there always comes a small window – usually 4-6...

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