Beardsley farm will be off-site selling many seedlings and plants including:

Peppers and Eggplants: Jalapeno, Pasilla Bajo, Habanero, California Wonder, Chinese Giant, Diamond and Black Beauty Eggplants

Tomatoes: Black Beauty, Sart Roloise, Brandywine, Red Currant Cherry, Cherokee Purple, Costoluto, Genovese, and Striped Roman

Herbs: Bouquet Dill, Florence Fennel, Peppermint, Summer Thyme, Flat Leaf Parsley, Sage, Catnip, Italian Genovese Basil, Sweet Thai Basil, Purple Petra Basil, and Tulsi Holy Basil

Flowers: Zinnia, Celosia, Marigolds, Calendula, Cosmos, and Arcado Pink Hyssops

We will also be releasing a partnership beer with Pears from Beardsley! A percentage from every pint of this beer will go to support Beardsley Farms missions!

Rain date is Saturday, April 27th from 1-5PM.

Lee Rumble will walk the group through the different styles of pruning, demonstrate the correct (and incorrect) way to prune fruit trees, and answer your questions along the way! This event is FREE and open to the public - no sign up required!

Join us Saturday March 23rd for this months Community Workday.

We will be weeding, planting, watering and much more!

Be sure to wear close-toed shoes and clothes you can get dirty. Don't forget your water bottle and sunscreen!

Join us Friday, March 8th, for an Apple and Pear Tree Pruning Workshop with Lee Rumble. The workshop begins at 1:00 at CAC Beardsley Community Farm and will last around two hours. Lee Rumble will walk the group through the different styles of pruning, demonstrate the correct (and incorrect) way to prune fruit trees, and answer your questions along the way! This event is FREE and open to the public - no sign up required!

Following our Community Workday, we will host a spring seed and tool swap! Bring your coolest varieties to share with others and maybe find a rare seed you’ve been looking for. The seed and tool swap is from 3:00-5:00pm .

** Please do not bring broken tools to the swap. Please only bring gardening tools that are in working order.

Join us for the first Community Workday of the year! Together we will prep lots of beds for spring planting! Please wear clothes that you do not mind getting dirty and closed-toed shoes. Bring a water bottle. If you are unsure if we are open because of the weather, give us a call or email us.

Snow Day, a CAC Beardsley Community Farm Benefit, will be hosted at the Mill and Mine from 6-10 PM on February 9th, 2024.

Snow Day will feature live performances by a diverse group of musicians, a soup contest between some of Knoxville's finest restaurants, a silent auction, and a bar with profits benefiting the farm thanks to Lipman Brothers.

TICKETS: are $30 if you pre-order online or $35 at the door. Add on a limited edition hand screen printed Snow Day poster by local artists Ashlee Mays and Logan Syzmanowski of the Museum of Infinite Outcomes for an additional $25. Tickets include all-you-can-eat soup! Kids under 8 get in for free! The Mill and Mine is located at 227 W Depot Ave. Knoxville, TN 37917. Purchase tickets here: https://givebutter.com/c/nFZV3Y

MUSICIANS: Zach Russell, Jorden Albright, Jaq Honey, and Count This Penny.

SOUP AND BREAD: This year's soup contestants include Landing House, Kandilige Kitchen, Yee-Haw Brewing Co., Potchke, Red Bud Kitchen, and more! Come try delicious vegetarian and vegan soups featuring local ingredients! The winner will receive a beautiful gourd award. Arrive early before soup runs out. Please consider bringing your own reusable mug and spoon to cut down on waste. Bread is generously provided by Tellico Grains, Flourhead Bakery and Sokno Sourdough!

SILENT AUCTION: Come bid on amazing silent auction items! Over one hundred items from wonderful Knoxville businesses will be represented. The silent auction will run online (through this website starting February 2nd) as well as in person at Snow Day from 6PM-9PM. View our auction items and register to bid here: https://givebutter.com/c/nFZV3Y/auction

Join us for our November Farm Workday, the last one of the year! We'll give you a tour of the farm and then work together to harvest, water, weed, and prepare for the winter cold ahead.

Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes. Sign up here to reserve your spot!

Help your students fall in love with nature through the classroom. Hosted at UT Gardens, 2518 Jacobs Dr.

CAC Beardsley Farm is hosting its annual Harvest Festival. The festival will include fun games and crafts for kids, live music, and free food. Some of our vendors this year will include Phoenix Pharmacy, Ham n Goodys, Frog Juice Kombucha, Real Good Kitchen, and many more.

Join us this fall to celebrate!

Join us for our October Farm Workday. We'll give you a tour of the farm and then work together to harvest, water, weed, and prepare for the cool season ahead.

Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes. Sign up here to reserve your spot!

Join us for our September Community Workday! The morning will start with a tour of the farm then we will work together pulling weeds, mowing, weed-eating, and more!

Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes. Sign up here to reserve your spot!

Join us for our August Community Workday! We'll give you a tour of the farm and then work together to harvest our summer veggies, trellis tomatoes, and more!

Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes. You can sign up here.

Join us for our June Community Workday! We'll give you a tour of the farm and then work together to prepare for our summer planting season.

Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes and bring a water bottle if needed! You can sign up here.

Únase a nosotros en Beardsley Farm para nuestro segundo evento anual del Día del Niño, una celebración de niños de todas las edades. ¡Centro se ha asociado con Beardsley Farm, Wesley House y Muse para traer este divertido evento comunitario! ¡Será un día lleno de actividades, pintura de caras, piñatas, obsequios de bicicletas, comida, música, recursos comunitarios, animales con globos y más! Las organizaciones que asisten al evento son Parents as Teachers, Dragonfly Aerial Arts, Muse, Wesley House, TwoBikes y CycleService. Para obtener más información, comuníquese con Bonnie al 865-910-7765 o b.ortiz@centrohispanotn.org. Haga clic aquí para ver el evento en Feacebook.
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Join us at Beardsley Farm for our 2nd annual Día de Niño event, a celebration of children of all ages. Centro is partnering with Beardsley Farm, Wesley House, and Muse to bring this fun community event! It will be a day filled with activities, face painting, piñatas, bike giveaways, food, music, community resources, balloon animals, and more! Organizations attending the event are Parents as Teachers, Dragonfly Aerial Arts, Muse, Wesley House, TwoBikes, and CycleService. For more information, contact Bonnie at 865-910-7765 or b.ortiz@centrohispanotn.org. Click here to view event on Facebook.

Beardsley’s annual Garden Art Gala is a free event that is intended to promote creativity and bring the community together over art, music, and fun on the farm. We will be hosting visual artists, crafts folks, and performers on the farm (1741 Reynolds St.) and throughout Malcolm-Martin park. We will provide free drinks and light snacks, and there will also be meals available for purchase from a local vendor.  Event will be on June 2nd, 2023, from 4pm-8pm.

Dress Code: Farmer or Classic Art Gala or Both! Think overalls with heels, ties and cargo pants, etc. Make it fun and however you'd like! (not required of course! Just a fun idea)

Over the past 25 years at Beardsley Farm, we have seen the fruits of our combined labor of planting a seed, watering a garden bed, and harvesting fruits. But in between the distributions we’ve held and the classes we’ve taught lie the juicy moments of joy that make life really sweet at the farm: dancing silly in the beet beds, mimicking a bee waggle dance, seeing someone taste a fresh-off-the-vine ripe strawberry for the first time, asking fun life questions while weeding, and finding special moments together among the long days of planting. These moments are what makes Beardsley flourish, and the art gala this year will be celebrating all the moments that make our lives and our communities flourish. We are showcasing and celebrating work that explores the ideals of life and growth: being silly, carefree, and safe,  the perfect bite of food, open belly laughter, getting that thing stuck in your tooth out… finally, limited suffering and endless goodness for all involved. Big, small, forgotten, or upheld: enjoy the warmth and silliness of life, moments of connection, the minds, beings and all that can encompass this thrill.

Join us for our May Community Workday! We'll give you a tour of the farm and then work together to prepare for the early summer planting season.

Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes. You can sign up here.

Ready to get that summer garden going? We've got what you need: heirloom tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, herbs and flowers!

Purchase:
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Pick up:
April 22nd from 10am-2pm
CAC Beardsley Community Farm
1741 Reynolds St. Knoxville, TN 37921

All orders will be picked up under Beardsley's outdoor pavilion.

Questions? Contact us:
beardsleyfarm@gmail.com
865.546.8446

Thank you Knoxville!

Join us for our April Farm Workday! We'll give you a tour of the farm and then work together on farm tasks.

Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes. You can sign up here.

Join us for our March Community Workday! We'll give you a tour of the farm and then work together to prepare for the spring planting season.

Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes. You can sign up here.

Join us Friday, March 24, for a FREE Tree Pruning Workshop led by certified arborist Lee Brumble.

The workshop will include education and hands-on pruning practice. Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes.

This event is open to the public!

Mark your calendars for the next Beers with Beardsley in partnership with Elst Brewing Company on March 4th, 4 - 10 pm!

Elst Brewing is releasing a Pear Sour Ale featuring Asian Pears harvested at Beardsley Farm.

A portion of the sales for the night will be donated to help Beardsley continue to donate, grow, and educate the Knoxville community!

One gardener’s extras are another gardener’s treasures, so come share rare heirloom seeds and talk up your favorite gardening tricks. This is a free event, and attendees do not have to bring seeds to the swap. We'll have a large amount of seeds spread out in our outdoor pavilion, sorted by plant families. We have many organic vegetable, herb, and flower seeds to share.

Beardsley will also have a "freebie table" with some pots and other gardening supplies and treasures. First come, first serve!

Our Annual Seed Swap will happen right after our first workday of the year so feel free to come to one or the other or both!

If there are any questions, please feel free to contact to email us at beardsleyfarm@gmail.com.

Join us for our first community workday of 2023 on Saturday, February 25th! We will start with a tour of the farm and then work to prepare the farm for spring planting and the upcoming growing season.

Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and closed-toed shoes. You can sign up here.

Snow Day, a CAC Beardsley Community Farm Benefit, will be hosted at Hi-Wire Brewing from 4-8 PM on February 4th, 2023. Come help us celebrate 25 years of serving Knoxville! Learn more and purchase tickets here.

Snow Day will feature live performances by a diverse group of musicians, a soup contest between some of Knoxville's finest restaurants, a silent auction, and a bar with a percentage of profits benefiting the farm.

TICKETS: are $25 if you pre-order online or $30 at the door. Add on a limited edition hand screen printed Snow Day poster by local artists Ashlee Mays and Logan Syzmanowski of the Museum of Infinite Outcomes for an additional $25.

Tickets include all-you-can-eat soup! Kids under 8 get in for free!

Hi-Wire Brewing is located at 2020 Barber St, Knoxville, TN 37920.

MUSICIANS: Yer Flowers, Evie Andrus, Jorden Albright, NEZ, and Supine Sea.

SOUP AND BREAD: This year's soup contestants include OliBea, Landing House, The Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain, Kandilige Kitchen, Yee-Haw Brewing Co., Pastelitos Cuban Bakery, Potchke, Seoul Brothers, Potluck, Stolen Street Lights , Kandilige Kitchen, and Red Bud Kitchen. Come try delicious vegetarian and vegan soups featuring local ingredients! The winner will receive a beautiful gourd award. Arrive early before soup runs out. Please consider bringing your own reusable mug and spoon to cut down on waste.

SILENT AUCTION: Come bid on amazing silent auction items! Over one hundred items from wonderful Knoxville businesses will be represented. The silent auction will run online (through this website starting January 27th) as well as in person at Snow Day from 4PM-7PM.

PARKING: detailed parking information will be available soon. Please carpool, walk, and bike when possible!

Purchase tickets here!

Join us for our November community workday!

Our workday will be from 9am-12pm. We'll give you a tour of the farm and then work together to do farm tasks.

Let us know you’re coming by signing up here.

We're hosting our third GrowTeachKnox event for professional and informal educators who are interested in learning more about nature-based education on 11/5 at UT Gardens. This hands on event will cover a variety of topics like using outdoor learning for STEM education, fun with food in the classroom, low maintenance outdoor learning tips and ideas, and more. Tickets are limited. Don’t miss out!

Tickets are $35 and include breakfast and lunch.

Register here.

Harvest Festival  at CAC Beardsley Community Farm

Come celebrate the fall harvest at CAC Beardsley Community Farm with a free, family-friendly community event on Saturday, October 29th from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM! Harvest Festival is back for 2022 and will celebrate the farm, the community, and all things fall. Enjoy free food, children's activities, live music, and tours of the farm.

If you've never been to Knoxville's only urban demonstration farm, now is your chance! Bring the whole family to this exciting seasonal event. In case of inclement weather, this event will be canceled. Please check our Facebook event for updates. Call 865-546-8446 or email beardsleyfarm@gmail.com with questions.

Join us for our October community workday!

Our workday will be from 9am-12pm. We'll give you a tour of the farm and then work together to do farm tasks.

Let us know you’re coming by signing up here.