So, when she and her family moved to the Chattanooga area in 2016, that’s just what she did.
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Who: Becca Coleman Where: Signal Mountain, TN When: Started in 2016 What: Varieties including narcissus, honeywort, peonies, dahlias, and rosesĪfter earning a degree in web design and working as a professional photographer, Becca Coleman realized she’d much rather work outdoors with her hands in the dirt. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Quoting Berry, Sharpe shares one of her greatest sources of inspiration, “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. But the magic and beauty in the transformation spur her on. There are a lot of ways I’ve failed,” Sharpe admits. “I’m always trying different processes and new things. Starting everything from seed, she has 4,000 seedlings sprouting in her living room right now, which makes it a long operation with room for error. Since then, it has been a steep learning curve, but research, experimentation, and the mentorship of Jenni Dickenson with Maryville’s Napping Cat Flower Farm have informed her path. A suggestion from a friend to grow flowers for brides using the farm venue planted the proverbial seed for Creekside Flower Farm.Īs a Covenant College alumna, Sharpe won most of her startup funding in 2016 from the college’s Seed Project, a startup competition for recent alumni and students. I’d get home from work and all I wanted to do was check on my babies,” she recalls. “Honestly, I just thought it was going to be a nice place to sit and read,” Sharpe laughs. Living at High Point Farms, which doubles as a wedding venue, Sharpe decided to build a greenhouse. The idea resonated with Sharpe, “I thought, ‘maybe I should dig into the land.’ Literally.”
In his work, Berry discusses becoming a “placed person” by connecting with the land and its people. While struggling with a sense of placelessness both in life and the world, Sharpe became acquainted with the musings of farmer and author Wendell Berry. Raised by missionary parents, Morgan Sharpe spent a little bit of time in a lot of places throughout North and Central America growing up.
Who: Morgan Sharpe Where: Flintstone, GA When: Started in 2016 What: Varieties including snapdragons, ranunculus, anemones, poppies, larkspur, honeywort, and tuberose
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