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SUMMARY:40th Annual Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Exchange Place Living History Farm\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in\nKingsport\, invites you to celebrate the blossoming of spring at its 40 th annual Spring Garden\nFair on April 25 (10am-5pm) and 26 (12pm-5pm). Please join us at the oldest garden fair in our\nregion – and a destination-event for area gardeners – to welcome the season with beautiful\nplants\, then stay to travel back to the 1850s to experience life on a historical farm and enjoy\nheritage craft and animal demonstrations\, homemade food\, live music\, and engaging children’s\nactivities. Admission is $5 for everyone age 12 and older; there is no fee for children under 12.\nThe Spring Garden Fair features nearly 70 vendors (the most ever!)\, with thousands of plants\nfor sale\, including perennials\, annuals\, trees and shrubs – with a special focus on herbs\, native\nand heirloom plants (including a wide variety of heirloom tomatoes). Also for sale will be a\nvariety of garden-related arts and crafts\, like wind chimes\, bird feeders and houses\, hand-built\npottery\, homemade soaps\, organic hair and skin oils\, flavored cooking extracts\, and blown-glass\ndécor\, knitted blankets\, and jewelry. Whether you are a seasoned gardener or ready to start\nyour first window-sill herb\, the Fair will offer just what you need – not to mention guidance from\nthe Northeast Tennessee Master Gardeners and other gardening experts.\nThe Kingsport Community Band opens the Fair at 10am on Saturday; other local musicians will\nperform every hour throughout the weekend Fair.\nChildren will be busy as bees with fun nature-based crafts. Near the Preston House\, children\ncan make flower crowns to take home or wear as they dance around the Maypole (Saturday at\n2pm\, Sunday at 3pm) to tunes performed by the Junior Apprentice’s (JA) Old-Time Band.\nThe JA’s are a group of youth age 12-18 who learn about history and skills associated with rural\nearly American life in northeast Tennessee. For an additional $5\, children can weave a basket\nat the Schoolhouse with the Tri-State Basket Guild; all fees will be used to purchase feed for\nExchange Place’s (EP) beloved animals. Children can also try paper-making on the Roseland\nporch.\nNew this year\, Talon Ridge Raptor Institute\, a Kingsport-based non-profit\, will present their\nEurasian Eagle-Owl and discuss their work to rescue injured raptors and their plans to develop\nthe area’s only raptor rehabilitation facility.\nVisit two of EP’s heritage animal residents in the pasture behind the Burow Museum: Bliss\, an\nAmerican Devon milking cow (a female with horns!) and Jenny\, a Jerusalem donkey. As a\nbonus\, two cute-as-pie baby lambs will be visiting EP for the Spring Fair. Five chickens can be\nfound behind the demonstration garden.\nKeeping a long-standing seasonal ritual\, TJ DeWitt will hand-shear EP’s five resident Cotswold \nsheep in the area between the Burow Museum and Quilt Barn. One sheep will be sheared at\neach of these times: Saturday at 11am\, 1pm\, and 3pm\, then Sunday at 1pm and 3pm.\nAfter visiting the animals\, walk next door to Roseland where the Overmountain Weavers Guild\nwill card the wool sheared from EP’s sheep and spin it into yarn as part of their “sheep to shawl”\ndemonstration!\nOther heritage attractions: On the front porch of the Preston House\, John Alexander will\ndemonstrate heritage broom-making (Saturday only)\, and Dorothy McMillan will make corn-husk\ndolls (Saturday and Sunday); completed projects will be available for sale.  Interpreters\, dressed\nin traditional attire from the 1850s\, will share the history of EP in the Gaines Store\, the\nGathering Room of the Preston House\, the Cook’s Cabin\, the Blacksmith Forge\, and the\nKitchen. Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society and the JAs will be churning butter (Saturday)\nand baking (Sunday) in EP’s Kitchen. The JAs will also be working in the garden\, around the\nwood shed\, and shaping iron over the Blacksmith Forge. Don’t miss the chance to participate in\nthe JA’s Tennessee Dancing Gourd Spin-Off near the Cook’s Cabin on both days of the Fair.\nAfter touring the vendors and demonstrations\, visit the Museum Gift Shop\, fully stocked with\nvintage toys and EP-branded items as well as handcrafted arts and crafts from regional artists.\nFood vendors will sell barbeque\, beef and vegetarian hot dogs\, freshly squeezed lemonade\,\ncoffee\, roasted (on site) almonds and other nuts\, kettle corn\, ice cream\, cinnamon rolls\, cookies\,\npound cake\, coffee cake\, bread\, and fresh eggs throughout the weekend.\nFor more information\, please visit the Exchange Place (EP) website\n(exchangeplacetn.org)\, follow us on Facebook (ExchangePlaceKingsport) and Instagram\n(exchangeplacetn)\, or call 423-288-6071.\nExchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\, educational facility and\nregional attraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the history\, heritage\,\nand artifacts related to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. \nMusic Schedule for Saturday\, April 25 \n10am-11am  Kingsport Community Band\n11am-12N    PineyPicker Dulcimer Group\n12N-1pm      Renaissance Strings Dulcimers\n1pm-2pm      Jim and Ann Gates\n2pm-3pm      Junior Apprentice Band/ May Pole Dancing\n3pm-4pm      "Red and Grey" \nMusic Schedule for Sunday\, April 26 \n12N-1pm Richard Phillips\n1pm-2pm        Martha Egan – Bring a Pennywhistle to play; no experience required.\n2pm-3pm        State Street String Band\n3pm-4pm        JA Band/May Pole Dancing
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/40th-annual-spring-garden-fair/2026-04-25/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Festivals,Food/Drink,General,Historical Events,Outdoors,Shopping
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SUMMARY:40th Annual Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Exchange Place Living History Farm\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in\nKingsport\, invites you to celebrate the blossoming of spring at its 40 th annual Spring Garden\nFair on April 25 (10am-5pm) and 26 (12pm-5pm). Please join us at the oldest garden fair in our\nregion – and a destination-event for area gardeners – to welcome the season with beautiful\nplants\, then stay to travel back to the 1850s to experience life on a historical farm and enjoy\nheritage craft and animal demonstrations\, homemade food\, live music\, and engaging children’s\nactivities. Admission is $5 for everyone age 12 and older; there is no fee for children under 12.\nThe Spring Garden Fair features nearly 70 vendors (the most ever!)\, with thousands of plants\nfor sale\, including perennials\, annuals\, trees and shrubs – with a special focus on herbs\, native\nand heirloom plants (including a wide variety of heirloom tomatoes). Also for sale will be a\nvariety of garden-related arts and crafts\, like wind chimes\, bird feeders and houses\, hand-built\npottery\, homemade soaps\, organic hair and skin oils\, flavored cooking extracts\, and blown-glass\ndécor\, knitted blankets\, and jewelry. Whether you are a seasoned gardener or ready to start\nyour first window-sill herb\, the Fair will offer just what you need – not to mention guidance from\nthe Northeast Tennessee Master Gardeners and other gardening experts.\nThe Kingsport Community Band opens the Fair at 10am on Saturday; other local musicians will\nperform every hour throughout the weekend Fair.\nChildren will be busy as bees with fun nature-based crafts. Near the Preston House\, children\ncan make flower crowns to take home or wear as they dance around the Maypole (Saturday at\n2pm\, Sunday at 3pm) to tunes performed by the Junior Apprentice’s (JA) Old-Time Band.\nThe JA’s are a group of youth age 12-18 who learn about history and skills associated with rural\nearly American life in northeast Tennessee. For an additional $5\, children can weave a basket\nat the Schoolhouse with the Tri-State Basket Guild; all fees will be used to purchase feed for\nExchange Place’s (EP) beloved animals. Children can also try paper-making on the Roseland\nporch.\nNew this year\, Talon Ridge Raptor Institute\, a Kingsport-based non-profit\, will present their\nEurasian Eagle-Owl and discuss their work to rescue injured raptors and their plans to develop\nthe area’s only raptor rehabilitation facility.\nVisit two of EP’s heritage animal residents in the pasture behind the Burow Museum: Bliss\, an\nAmerican Devon milking cow (a female with horns!) and Jenny\, a Jerusalem donkey. As a\nbonus\, two cute-as-pie baby lambs will be visiting EP for the Spring Fair. Five chickens can be\nfound behind the demonstration garden.\nKeeping a long-standing seasonal ritual\, TJ DeWitt will hand-shear EP’s five resident Cotswold \nsheep in the area between the Burow Museum and Quilt Barn. One sheep will be sheared at\neach of these times: Saturday at 11am\, 1pm\, and 3pm\, then Sunday at 1pm and 3pm.\nAfter visiting the animals\, walk next door to Roseland where the Overmountain Weavers Guild\nwill card the wool sheared from EP’s sheep and spin it into yarn as part of their “sheep to shawl”\ndemonstration!\nOther heritage attractions: On the front porch of the Preston House\, John Alexander will\ndemonstrate heritage broom-making (Saturday only)\, and Dorothy McMillan will make corn-husk\ndolls (Saturday and Sunday); completed projects will be available for sale.  Interpreters\, dressed\nin traditional attire from the 1850s\, will share the history of EP in the Gaines Store\, the\nGathering Room of the Preston House\, the Cook’s Cabin\, the Blacksmith Forge\, and the\nKitchen. Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society and the JAs will be churning butter (Saturday)\nand baking (Sunday) in EP’s Kitchen. The JAs will also be working in the garden\, around the\nwood shed\, and shaping iron over the Blacksmith Forge. Don’t miss the chance to participate in\nthe JA’s Tennessee Dancing Gourd Spin-Off near the Cook’s Cabin on both days of the Fair.\nAfter touring the vendors and demonstrations\, visit the Museum Gift Shop\, fully stocked with\nvintage toys and EP-branded items as well as handcrafted arts and crafts from regional artists.\nFood vendors will sell barbeque\, beef and vegetarian hot dogs\, freshly squeezed lemonade\,\ncoffee\, roasted (on site) almonds and other nuts\, kettle corn\, ice cream\, cinnamon rolls\, cookies\,\npound cake\, coffee cake\, bread\, and fresh eggs throughout the weekend.\nFor more information\, please visit the Exchange Place (EP) website\n(exchangeplacetn.org)\, follow us on Facebook (ExchangePlaceKingsport) and Instagram\n(exchangeplacetn)\, or call 423-288-6071.\nExchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\, educational facility and\nregional attraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the history\, heritage\,\nand artifacts related to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. \nMusic Schedule for Saturday\, April 25 \n10am-11am  Kingsport Community Band\n11am-12N    PineyPicker Dulcimer Group\n12N-1pm      Renaissance Strings Dulcimers\n1pm-2pm      Jim and Ann Gates\n2pm-3pm      Junior Apprentice Band/ May Pole Dancing\n3pm-4pm      "Red and Grey" \nMusic Schedule for Sunday\, April 26 \n12N-1pm Richard Phillips\n1pm-2pm        Martha Egan – Bring a Pennywhistle to play; no experience required.\n2pm-3pm        State Street String Band\n3pm-4pm        JA Band/May Pole Dancing
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/40th-annual-spring-garden-fair/2026-04-26/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
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