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Farm hospitality at its absolute peak.
Blackberry Farm started as a six-room dairy farm and became the gold standard for culinary-driven farm hotels. Then they expanded into a 5,200-acre wilderness wellness retreat.
🌱 Foothills Cuisine using Appalachian ingredients
🧀 Small-batch cheese made from their own sheep
🍽️ Three consecutive James Beard Awards
🌲 Adventure wellness, forest bathing, and design rooted in the land
Two properties. One philosophy: build everything around the farm and the landscape.
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Transcript
This is one of the best farm hotels, and this is one of the top mountain resorts in the world. They're both in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, and founded by the same family. This is Blackberry Farm rank Blackberry Mountain, two properties in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, and they're the shining star that everyone in luxury farm hospitality looks to. The first one, Blackberry Farm, opened in 1976 as a six room country inn on a dairy farm. Over decades, the Better family transformed it into a global culinary destination. They trademarked their cooking style, Foothills Cuisine, a refined take on Appalachian ingredients harvested at peak season from their own gardens and local producers. The Barn restaurant has won three James Beard Awards, all in consecutive years. But here's what sets them apart: This is an actual working farm. For example, they make award winning artisanal cheese from their own flock of sheep. Every cheese is seasonal, small batch, and completely unique to Blackberry Farm, And all of their produce is grown and made with the same level of passion and care. Then in 2019, they opened Blackberry Mountain, 5200 acres of protected wilderness.