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Welcome to Honey Rock Herb Farm via our web site!

We'd love to have you visit us at our farm in Louisville, TN, where you'll find hundreds of organically grown herbs, flowers and vegetables.  We also have topiaries, planters and "gardens in a pot." 

Inside the Herbal Cottage you'll see dried flowers, herbs, potpourri supplies, herbal soaps, books, and gifts for the gardener and good cook.  We've chosen the best gardening tools, gloves and organic gardening supplies.  You'll love our own "3 B Honey" named for my father (Gerald Bailey,) us (the Browns), and of course, the Bees!

The Little House on the hill is our meeting room where we have classes, workshops and celebrate special days such as "Lavender Day" and "Christmas at Honey Rock."

Stroll through our "always in progress" Display Gardens.  Feel free to touch, smell and (if edible) nibble as you go.

We've been growing and enjoying herbs for nearly 30 years.  We'd love to share the joy of herbs with you!
 
"If the day and the night are such that
you greet them with joy, and life emits
a fragrance like flowers and sweet
scented herbs...That is your success."   
Thoreau
 

As they say “The heat is on” and it’s only June! What will August bring?

          We’ve had a great spring at Honey Rock. We appreciate seeing your bright smiling faces, and visiting with you. We seem to be hearing a lot of the same observations such as “My old rosemary died last winter,” “I don’t have as many hummingbirds as in years past,” I’ve never seen so much clover,” and “Why aren’t the bees on the clover?” I don’t think the long cold winter killed so many rosemary’s. I think it was so much rain. I don’t know about the other comments. What have you observed?  

          With the intense heat and lack of time (excuses, excuses, excuses) I’ve let the weeds take over our gardens. Some weeds I might welcome. Lamb’s Quarters for instance is a tasty weed that rivals spinach in taste as well as phosphorus, calcium and vitamin C. I have made Lamb’s Quarters quiche using my favorite spinach quiche recipe. Our friend Ila Hatter (a dear friend we never see or talk to) includes Lamb’s Quarters and many other wild foods in her book “Roadside Rambles” available through her web site www.Wildcrafting.com. Ila says “The woods and fields are a table always spread.”  

          Maryville Farmers Market has more fresh produce, bread, honey, plants and flowers every week. I think you can find all the ingredients you need for this recipe (except for olive oil and lemon juice) either in your garden or your local farmers market.

Starting next Thursday July 1st. we will be open by appointment. Please don’t hesitate to call at 984-0954.

          Remember Blooms Days this Saturday and Sunday at the UT Agriculture Campus. Jim will be talking Sunday at 1:30 July 4 on “Go Local.”

 

 

 

 

Honey Rock Herb Farm,
PO Box 23, Louisville, TN 37777
 865-984-0954
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  Location: 113 Honey Rock Way

 

Hosting by The Herbal Connection