Join us at the farm for a morning of work. There are many tasks that will keep us busy. Please come prepared for the weather and remember to bring your water bottle.
THE DETAILS: Beardsley’s annual First Friday Garden Art Gala is an exciting free event that aims to foster creativity and strengthen community bonds through the celebration of art, music, and enjoyable experiences on the farm. Our mission is to honor both artistic expression and the spirit of community.
SPECIAL GUESTS: This year we’re teaming up with Knox Pride to do just that! The event lines up with Pride month, and we couldn’t be more proud to work alongside our friends at the KPC.
REFRESHMENTS: Complimentary drinks and light snacks will be available to enhance the festivities. We’ll have garden inspired mocktails! And popsicles and snackies!
WHAT TO WEAR: We want you to wear whatever you’re comfortable in! But if you’re feeling it, come dressed in your finest overalls or fancy farm attire, whatever that means to you.
ARTISTS: If you would like to participate as a visual or performing artist, please fill out an application here and we will get back to you soon! Application cut off date is on May 15th.
WEATHER UPDATE!
Beardsley’s Plant Sale has been moved to Sunday, April 27th from 1pm-4pm at the Crafty Bastard Brewery.
Get ready for your gardening season with our exceptional quality plants! Join us at the Crafty Bastard to connect with fellow gardeners and enjoy a fantastic day. Remember, all proceeds from the plant sale will directly support our farm’s outreach, educational initiatives, and produce distribution programs. Don’t miss out—your participation makes a difference!
Join us for our April Community Workday! We highly encourage everyone to wear closed-toed shoes. Please bring a water bottle and your best weed-pulling skills! Additionally, we invite you to donate gently used garden tools to support local gardeners. You can drop off tools at the farm during our workday hours.
Join us at the farm for our annual fruit tree pruning workshop series with UT Extension Agent Lee Rumble. This is the second of two workshops focusing on stone fruit trees like peach, plum, and cherry. During this class you will learn why we prune our fruit trees, the proper technique to maintain the tree's health, and help us prune the stone fruit trees throughout the park. Don't miss this great opportunity to talk with Lee Rumble and get hands-on pruning experience!
Join us for our Plant Sale, featuring an exceptional selection of plants perfect for nurturing your garden this season. We invite you to the vibrant Crafty Bastard Brewery, where you can enjoy a warm atmosphere filled with friendly faces while shopping for a variety of beautiful plants. Every purchase you make will directly support our farm, helping to fund vital outreach initiatives, educational programs, and food distribution efforts in our community. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow your garden and make a difference!
Join us at the farm for our annual fruit tree pruning workshop series with UT Extension Agent Lee Rumble. This is the first of two workshops focusing on apple and pear trees. During this class you will learn why we prune our fruit trees, the proper technique to maintain the tree's health, and help us prune the apple and pear trees throughout the park. Don't miss this great opportunity to talk with Lee Rumble and get hands-on pruning experience!
With Knox County Master Gardeners!
This class is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and will focus on growing spring gardening! It will also be taking place in our outdoor pavilion so keep the temperature in mind that day!
They will cover raised bed gardening, using containers (everything can be applied to growing directly in soil), cool season crops with a real focus on how to plan crop rotation. The first hour will be the "teaching" and the second hour will be a small group activity designing a crop rotation plan.
The first 10 to sign up for and attend class will receive a voucher for a produce basket from Beardsley Farm.
Following our Community Workday, we will host a seed swap! Bring varieties of seeds you’ve saved to share with others and maybe find a rare seed you’ve been looking for. It is not a requirement to bring seeds in order to attend. There will be plenty of seeds to go around.
Join us for the first Community Workday of the year! Together we will prep beds for spring planting. Please wear clothes that you do not mind getting dirty, closed-toed shoes, a water bottle, and a rain jacket (it tends to be drizzly this time of year).
Snow Day, a CAC Beardsley Community Farm Benefit, will be hosted at the Mill and Mine from 6-9:30 PM on February 7th, 2025. Come help us celebrate Beardsley Farm!
Snow Day will feature live music, a soup contest between some of Knoxville's finest restaurants, a silent auction, and a cash bar.
TICKETS: This year, we have a tiered option for Snow Day tickets. Despite Snow Day being a fundraiser, we want our ticket prices to remain inclusive. It’s not a party without our people. But if you can donate a little extra, it helps us immensely as we get ready to provide another year of food, gardens, and programming in our community. So to sum up: pay what you can!
Tickets include all-you-can-eat soup! Kids under 8 get in for free! Get tickets here.
Limited edition hand screen printed Snow Day poster by local artists Ashlee Mays and Logan Syzmanowski of the Museum of Infinite Outcomes will be available at Snow Day for $25!
MUSICIANS: Adeem the Artist, The Montvales, Black Atticus
SOUP: This year's soup contestants include Potchke, Redbud Kitchen, Central Creamery, The Spiffy Spud, The Mill & Mine, Otsu!, Landing House, Yee-Haw Brewing Co., Tarik's North African, Breezy's Plant Powered, 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.
We encourage you to bring your own reusable mug and spoon to cut down on waste!
BREAD: This year's bread bread is generously provided by: Small Comforts Kitchen (gluten free!), Potchke, and Sokno Sourdough. A portion of the gluten fee cornbread will be staged at our allergy info table for those who cannot tolerate gluten contamination. Please visit us at the allergy table and we will provide you with gluten free bread.
BAR: This year's bar is generously stocked by Lipman Brothers. 100% of proceeds from beer and cider go back to Beardsley Farm.
SILENT AUCTION: Come bid on amazing silent auction items! Over one hundred items from dozens of Knoxville businesses will be represented. The silent auction will run online (through this website starting February 3rd) as well as in person at Snow Day from 6PM-9PM.
2025 notes:
2025 notes:
*We cannot guarantee what percentage of soups will be vegetarian vs. vegan. We let the chefs run with their creativity!
*As Snow Day is an event with a focus on food, we do not require masks. However, masks are welcome.
We will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. The farm will reopen with regular hours on Monday, December 1st.
Join us for the last community work day of 2024!
Join us for our annual Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 26th from 1-5 PM! Free admission, free food, live music, games and more!
Free food includes meat & vegetarian chili and greens from Real Good Kitchen, cornbread, cookies from Ham and Goodies, ice cream from Central Creamery, and kombucha from Frog Juice!
The event features live music from the Spooky Oos, games of all kinds, pumpkin painting, and face painting. Costumes are highly encouraged.
As Harvest Festival is a well-attended event with lots of young children, no pets will be permitted.
After two months off, our Saturday workdays are starting back up! Join us August 24th from 9-12pm for a fun morning of weeding, prepping beds for fall, and lots more!
With Knox County Master Gardeners!
This class is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and will focus on getting your FALL garden started! It will be a step-by-step guide on how to be successful in beginner gardening.
Join us on Saturday, June 22nd, from 10 AM to 1 PM for a fun-filled morning at Día Del Niño! Enjoy face painting, piñatas, popcorn, and music at this free, family-friendly event hosted by our friends at Centro Hispano at Beardsley Community Farm.
We look forward to seeing you there!
🌈Save the date!🌈
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 want to celebrate the work that everyone involved on the farm puts in, whether it be from volunteers, partners, passers-by, interns, staff or our many neighbors! Obviously it wouldn't be the special place it is without you!
We will be hosting visual artists, crafts folks, and performers on the farm and throughout Malcolm-Martin park. We will provide free drinks and light snacks :-)
To be considered for artwork and performances fill out this form here!!
https://forms.gle/dRrsv3JYxiAfUzAi8
Attention beginner gardeners: Free Class!
Our long-time community gardening duo @letsgrothegardenlife (Keenanyah and Shamar) will be teaching a class series at Beardsley Farm. The first class is on May 21st from 1-3pm. The first 10 to sign up and attend will receive a fresh produce basket from Beardsley!
Class topics will include: Growing from seed, transplanting, companion planting, and other basics
The Knoxville Compost Project's next backyard compost workshop is here! Join Dr. Chad Hellwinckel of UT and City Possum Farm, as he discusses the importance of composting, how to properly turn food scraps into quality compost, & any trouble-shooting. Attendees will receive one free backyard compost tumbler & one countertop food scrap collection bin per household. Tickets for this event go live April 19. If you'd like to be the first to know when tickets go on sale, click here.
This event is limited to 30 people. Those who attended a previous workshop are not eligible to attend another. You are welcome to bring 1 additional member of your household but please make sure to indicate this and list their full name when prompted during your registration. Although the event is limited, the public is invited to attend the workshop with the understanding they will not receive the compost tumbler or countertop food scrap bin once all tickets have been reserved.
The City of Knoxville's Waste and Resources Office was awarded the USDA Composting & Food Waste Reduction Grant in 2023. To help us fulfill the requirements of the grant, which supports the expansion of our composting efforts, all participants of the workshop must agree to answer a questionnaire. This will be emailed to you 9 months post-workshop to give you enough time to produce compost. The questionnaire is essential to our reporting of certain metrics to the USDA and in improving future workshops.
You will be asked to report on topics such as the following:
1 . Approximate amount of food waste your household contributes each week
2 . Any composting challenges faced
3 . Approximate amount of compost produced
4 . If any compost was applied to soil to grow food
Future backyard composting workshops will be held - visit Knoxvilletn.gov/Compost for updates and other Knoxville Compost Project information. We look forward to seeing you!
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!
