Business
Richards Tree Farm
Also known as: Richard's Tree Farm
A family-operated nursery and garden center at 5064 Milford Road in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, founded in 1932 by Dr. John Richards as an evergreen farm in Middle Smithfield and grown by the fourth generation (Seth Hastings Richards Jr.) into a full-service nursery specializing in edible, rare, deer-resistant, and native plants, with an organic-gardening orientation. The most plant-aligned of the Pocono garden centers in terms of explicit native/organic focus.
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What they do
A working nursery and garden center carrying:
- Native plants — species native to the mid-Atlantic / Pocono ecoregion
- Edible and rare plants — fruiting trees, unusual edibles, specialty varieties
- Deer-resistant selections — important in a bioregion where browse pressure shapes what survives
- Trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals — the full nursery range
- Garden sculpture and containers — design-side complement to the plants
- Organic-gardening orientation — explicit in their own materials
Open Monday–Saturday 9am–4pm, Sunday 10am–3pm.
Why it’s listed
Most garden centers stock what sells: foundation shrubs, foundation perennials, foreign ornamentals that look good on a tag. Richards Tree Farm publicly identifies their specialty as “edible, rare, deer-resistant, native plants and organic gardening” — the exact set of categories that move a yard from monoculture-lawn-with-decorations into functional ecological landscape. This is the supply-side answer to [[doug-tallamy]]‘s homegrown-national-park argument: the demand for native landscaping is meaningless without nurseries that actually stock the plants. Richards is one of the few Pocono operations that does.
Four generations of continuity (founded 1932 by Dr. John Richards; now run by his great-grandson Seth Hastings Richards Jr.) is its own form of bioregional commitment — the operation knows what grows here because it has watched what grows here for nearly a century.
Bioregional fit
East Stroudsburg sits at the eastern edge of the [[pocono-plateau|Pocono Plateau]], on Milford Road heading toward the [[delaware-water-gap-national-recreation-area|Delaware Water Gap]]. The nursery’s native-plant emphasis matches the bioregion’s actual ecology: deer pressure, acidic soils, cold winters, second-growth hardwood forests. A nursery that knows the Pocono ecoregion specifically is more useful than a chain stocking a national average.
See also
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- Shares approach with: [[floods-nursery-farm-market]]
- Member of: [[business]]
- Contained by: [[poconos]]
- Practices: [[native-plant-nursery]]
Sources
- Richards Tree Farm public materials (richardstreefarm.com)
- Yelp business profile (5064 Milford Road, East Stroudsburg)
- Family history per the operation’s own about-page
Related concepts: [[organic-agriculture]].
A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].
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Practical
shares approach with
- Regina Farms two Milford Road nurseries in East Stroudsburg with different orientations — Richards leans native + edible + organic, Regina leans broad-range full-service
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