Why is Our Sign on the Wall at Blackhawk Garden Center?

If you’re a gardener, and you live in the Charlotte area, you’ve almost surely been to Blackhawk Garden Center, located in the back court at Park Road Shopping Center. They have the absolute highest quality garden merchandise, including live plants, garden art, imported ceramic planters, sturdy garden tools, organic insect pest control sprays, bagged organic soil products,  and much, much more. But what really makes Blackhawk Garden Center stand out among the many other places where you can pick up a shovel or a bag of potting soil, is their people. Every team member there is an experienced grower that either already knows the answer to your plant question, or will quickly find out while you wait. They’ll even help you load your purchases into your car. 

 

Now, if you’re already a patron of Blackhawk Garden Center, you’ve probably noticed our company’s sign mounted in a red cedar frame, and placed high on the brick wall that faces the shopping center’s back court parking lot. If you go to Blackhawk Garden Center for the first time, look out for the sign - It’s hard to miss, unless you stare at your shoes the whole time you’re there. 

So why is the Microfarm Organic Gardens sign up there? Read on, because the primary goal of this article is to shed a little light on that sign and our close relationship with the garden experts at Blackhawk Garden Center.

 

For eleven years now, we’ve served the Charlotte area with high-quality cedar garden products, including raised beds, chicken coops, greenhouses, compost, bins, potting benches, and more. Blackhawk Garden Center’s discerning customers often ask staff if they stock these kinds of larger, and often very heavy items. If the answer is no, customers frequently ask Blackhawk staff for a trusted referral to a company like Microfarm, that can build and deliver the desired cedar garden item. Now, Blackhawk Garden Center does have a sprawling area, with every square foot seemingly filled with garden merchandise, but they simply don’t have space to stock most of the bulky cedar garden items that we build and install.

 

So it didn’t take long for us to connect, and for Microfarm to earn a place on Blackhawk Garden Center’s highly-respected list of local contractor referrals. And our relationship with them has blossomed ever since.

You see, we’re a niche outfit,  and our days are filled with designing and building high-quality cedar garden stuff. So we prefer not to staff and maintain a retail location -  just our modest-sized workshop across town in Charlotte’s NoDa neighborhood.

 

But Blackhawk Garden Center, on the other hand, has a remarkable retail store, with plenty of parking, in a convenient location, and staffed with Charlotte’s most learned and experienced plant experts. 

So we make a good match, and the partnership between Microfarm Organic Gardens and Blackhawk Garden Center has thrived over the years,  as each one brings unique value to the table that well serves the other’s customers.

And if you’re a grower, and haven’t been to Blackhawk Garden Center yet, make plans to visit - you’ll be delighted you did. Look around at all the smart garden merchandise on display there, and don’t be shy about asking their staff a tough garden question or two - they’ll almost surely know the answers, and they can tell you a lot abut what we do here at Microfarm, too.