Skipping Rock Farm specializes in growing native trees for tomorrow's forests, woodlands, parks, and campuses. Our mission is to serve forestry professionals, community developers, landscape professionals and landowners as a true partner, supporting forestry stewardship and urban reforesting projects.
Skipping Rock Farm at Rocky Creek
We're Pretty Darn Different.
Since Skipping Rock Farm is all about reforesting truly native trees that are strong, healthy and have long lives ahead of them, we take the long way to grow them; Nature's way.
Our trees are grown naturally from seed -- seeds that were gently hand harvested directly from our forest, being sure to leave plenty behind for the wildlife. This means, when we say our tree is 48" tall, it actually grew to that height, naturally, from seed, at it's natural pace -- typically taking 3 to 5 years to get there -- all while under the careful and sustainable stewardship of Skipping Rock Farm.
To ensure naturally strong root systems and a longer lifespans, Skipping Rock Farm grows every tree ourselves, on-site, in containers. And, for their benefit, we sell them in those containers, keeping their appropriate and familiar soils with them. We do this to reduce stress and ensure that the proper conditions follow them to their forever home. This practice also allows us to make our trees available for pick up or delivery throughout the year. Now, with that said, it's always best to transplant trees during the appropriate season and weather conditions. So, order your trees whenever you prefer and, while you wait for the right time to plant them, keep and care for your trees in their containers. Take your time. Get to know them. Talk to them. Maybe give them names. Like Trixie or Fabio.
So, how is Skipping Rock Farm pretty darn different? Well, for starters, we're not an internet-based "tree-mill" marketplace. We don't offer trees that we didn't actually grow ourselves. We don't claim to have trees that actually ship from various 3rd party vendors who operate in unknown places with unknown soils and unknown growing practices. Also, we don't propagate or graft trees from branch cuttings in order to quickly achieve a particular height within mere months. We also don't offer bare-root, branchless trees, shipped in a box, during dormancy -- when the true condition of the tree can't be readily detected.