About Us
In addition to selling seeds and seedlings, we are focused on teaching others how to create their own sustainable garden.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to best serve our customers by providing quality, hardy plants along with professional, creative landscape services. We value education, and our caring staff will assist customers with their landscape choices, and encourage the use of East Tennessee native plants where appropriate. Our goals include enriching and transforming our clients’ environment, health, and well-being through sustainable gardening. Long-term, our mission is to give back to the communities in which we live and work, give back to the environment through the use of low-impact solutions, and give back to others by donating surplus foods to those in need.
Our Values
Community
Sustainability
Democracy
Food Security
Abundance
Education
Our Principles
- High-quality native and edible plants
- Perennial plant focus
- Patent-free or patent-expired plant varieties
- Minimized input and waste in plant propagation. source our input from other waste streams
- Deep mulch using arborist wood chips to conserve water and protect the soil
- Permaculture food forest approach
- Diversified plant selection
- Education and outreach programs for those with access to land for planting (homeowners and renters, churches, apartments, businesses, local government and public organizations, schools, etc)
- Responsible for sourcing of plants and materials
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
Native American Proverb