Bardy Farms a Destination for Holiday Items

Bardy Farms, a Warren fixture, has diversified its offerings to the point where there is always something fresh and local to choose from at the farm store.

Bardy’s stocks fresh fruits and vegetables, potatoes, dairy products, flowers, vegetable plants and even canned goods, all year round. 

But it is the holiday season where Bardy really shines, offering a host of locally grown and natural items for the season, heading into the New Year.

One of Bardy’s core offerings this time of year is Christmas trees. Customers can select from simply exquisite Douglas Firs, Frasiers and Balsam.

“We even offer some live trees as well,” said third-generation owner Rob Bardy.

Along with the fresh trees, Bardy’s also offers a wide variety of fresh, live wreaths and grave covers and roping from Oregon. 

Another particularly popular season item: “Fruit and fruit baskets, “ Bardy said, "they are especially popular this time of year. We make them fresh on a regular basis but we can also make them to order.”

Other seasonal items include poinsettias, tree stands, ice cycle lights, illuminated deer and sleds, grapevine deer, holiday flags, fruit baskets, international cheeses and crackers and holiday candy.

Like many farms, Bardy’s business is highly dependent on the weather and the economy.

“Last year, it was a wet spring, so it wound up being just a two or three week spring and that was brutal—we need 12 weeks, not two weeks,” Bardy said.

Bardy said that just as he was getting ready to sell the Halloween crop this year, the town was hit with the infamous power-outage snow storm. “It’s been relentless,” Bardy said.

But Bardy is quick to add: “we’ve been in business for 107 years, so we’ll get through it.”