Posts from the ‘Stories’ Category

Each November, we celebrate Veterans Day — a chance to recognize and celebrate the men and women who have served in our armed forces. This holiday is an opportunity to honor [read more]

Fall is a busy time of year for people who grow their own fruit or nuts. At Stark Bro’s, we recommend that you take a moment to enjoy [read more]

These days, with grocery stores and local markets around, growing your own fruit and nut trees has become a hobby with edible perks. But for many of the early settlers and westward expansion pioneers, fruit orchards were a staple for sustenance.

Last week, I had the pleasure of [read more]

Miniature gardening is a born-again hobby that joins the creativity of crafting with the joy of gardening like no other hobby can. Your mini garden can be [read more]

We completed the purchase of our home four years ago. The idea of owning land (5 ½ acres) was exciting, but at the time we were more excited about the house. We spent countless hours organizing house plans, furniture, and the decor of our investment. Little did we know [read more]

[Guest post by Andrew Odom]

It has been a number of years since the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag gathered to celebrate the colony’s first successful harvest. In fact, it has been 391 years as best we can tell. And while our modern celebrations are as much about Macy’s department store and Stovetop stuffing, there are still dots on our landscape that take this one day of the year to truly give thanks for [read more]

Today you may have noticed that our call center was a bit quieter than normal. You might have noted a lag in our tweeting and Facebook responses. If you had visited our office today, you would have found it quiet, and nearly deserted. For on this beautiful September afternoon, in what is considered one of the busiest times of our season, Stark Bro’s employees gathered together to celebrate [read more]

The smoke wafts up from my slightly-yellowed fingertips, dancing their way to my nostrils. I gulp hard, wince softly. Each swallow stings more than the first. As my eyes glaze over, I blink hard in a failed attempt to ignore the sunrise. Yet with unforgiving clarity, I still see her. Behind my eyelids, she tempts me with her roundness. She glistens and her smell causes my head to roll back. I exhale. With what feels like a sobering blow to the gut, I realize that [read more]

Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Co. is one of the oldest businesses in the United States (founded in 1816). Well before the westward expansion, in a time when [read more]

“Gardens are good for our souls. Not merely because they’re therapeutic or because they provide healthy foods or even because they give us a hedge against lean times but rather because, if you look at the big picture, they offer us that thing that we all crave so dearly. They offer that thing that drove our founding fathers to strike out on their own. They offer Freedom!”

- Courtesy Grit Magazine,

“The Freedom Garden” [read more]