Spring is in the air and reflects the abundance of exciting activity at Unity in 2018 between the expansion of our organically managed food production, creation of our landscape design center, and development of our native demonstration gardens you will surely have to venture out to see!

 

Unity Church Hill Farm has been growing and selling healthy, high quality produce using sustainable methods for two years now, and we hope you've stopped by our farm stand and tried the tigger melons, bumblebee cherry tomatoes, or any of the other unique varieties championed by Michael and his able staff. This year, we are excited to announce the addition of two new farm managers, Theresa Mycek, whom many of you know from Colchester Farm CSA, and Stephanie Jones, a Maryland native and total Eastern Shore newbie. Theresa, bringing with her over 16 years of experience, is looking forward to continuing to provide our community with a variety of produce while exploring and implementing no-till and regenerative growing techniques to build healthy soil and ecosystems. Stephanie Jones, with organic farming and hydroponic greenhouse management experience gained while working on vegetable farms in Maryland and Virginia, brings with her a passion for marketing to chefs, who as artists are ambassadors for fresh, healthy food. Drawing on their time farming and gardening with diverse populations, both Theresa and Stephanie are eager to build community here in Church Hill around healthy food, sustainable agriculture, and rural livelihoods. Let's celebrate Unity Church Hill Farm's renewed mission to raise produce with methods that nourish our growers, community, and the living soil.

 

Garlic planted from Colchester CSA (and also is available for sale at Chestertown Natural Foods)

Theresa and Stephanie have been busily planning and prepping for the coming season with the goal of having fresh produce available for sale in late April/early May. Here at Unity Church Hill Farm, produce will be available for purchase at the main building in our landscape design center during the same operating hours as the Nursery (8-5 M-F and 8-4 Saturday). You will also find our produce at Chestertown Natural Foods seven days a week and the Chestertown Farmers' Market on Saturday mornings.

 

Unity Church Hill Nursery has been reinvented for 2018 but continues with the mission of serving as "A native nursery and garden inspiration center offering services and products that foster a community living in harmony with nature." We invite you to come visit to see the evolution: We will be open starting March 15th with our regular schedule of 8-5 M-F and 8-4 Saturday and are excited to see your smiling faces return. Our rock star horticulturist and world of knowledge, Stephanie Wooten, will be at the nursery W-Sat along with highly energized Argentine tango enthusiast and farm co-manager, Stephanie Jones, who will be staffing the nursery on Tuesdays. The farm stand kiosk will serve as our welcome center to greet visitors upon arrival, and the nursery will be concentrated adjacent the Landscape Design Center in our main building. There will be a primary focus on in stock native plants, pottery, garden art, bulk and bagged soil building products and palletized stone. Our "YES WE CAN " program offers our customers the opportunity to call, email, fax or stop in to order all of your plant material needs and desires which we'll then prepare for pickup, delivery, or delivery and install by our professional Landscape Design/Build sister company. If that isn't enough, we have more.....the development of our native living demonstration gardens! A large portion of our existing nursery space will evolve into a showcase of our Chesapeake Bay natives incorporated into artistically designed garden spaces to inspire, educate and bring the community together at Unity. We will have an early pre-opening Spring Clearance Sale from March 10th-15th to make room for new arriving inventory, so be sure to stop out for some early great deals.

 

Unity Landscape Design/Build is celebrating its 25th anniversary serving the Chesapeake Bay region! Our mission, "Designing and constructing ecologically sensitive and functional outdoor living spaces" remains at the heart of every project we create. With the opening of Unity Church Hill Nursery on March 15th, we will be unveiling the new Landscape Design Center located at our main nursery building, and we welcome everyone to st op out and visit. The design center, serving as a working tool to allow visitors to view and feel the products that will be used on their projects, will feature low voltage lighting, brick, stone, pavers, irrigation components, drainage systems, plant material, supporting product literature and experts to assist and answer your questions. As part of our integrated design center, the comprehensive demonstration gardens will include outdoor living spaces designed to showcase an array of hardscape materials, low voltage lighting techniques, native plant combinations, specimen plantings, outdoor furniture, custom fencing, arbors, rain gardens and permaculture techniques.

 

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